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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF 
IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
AND MECHANIC ARTS 


Vol. XIII 


JANUARY 10, 1915 


No. 24 


PRESIDENT’S REPORTS 

FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 1914 

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RECOMMENDATIONS 

FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 1917 

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Ames, Iowa 


Published Tri-Monthly by the Iowa State College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts. Entered as Second-class Matter, October 26, 1905, at 
the Post Office at Ames, Iowa, under the Act of Congress of July 16,1904 


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Iowa State College 
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts 


Reports and Recommendations 
By the 
President 







SUMMARY OF TOPICS. 


EDUCATIONAL WORK.. 

Letter of Transmittal. 

Appropriations recommended for educational work, improvements, 
and enlargements at the college in the biennium July 1, 1915, to 
June 30, 1917. 

Report on educational work, improvements, and enlargements at the 
college in the biennium July 1, 1912, to June 30, 1914. 

The Student Body 
The Teaching Staff 
Collegiate Work 
Post-Graduate Work 
Sub-Collegiate W'ork 
Summer Session 
Winter Courses 
College Functions 
Campus 

Buildings and Land 
Equipment 
Administrative Work 
Finances 

INDUSTRIAL SERVICE WORK. 

Letter of Transmittal. 

Appropriations recommended for industrial service, including ex¬ 
perimental and extension work, in the biennium July 1, 1915, to 
June 30, 1917. 

Report on industrial service work, including experimental and ex¬ 
tension work, in the biennium July 1, 1912, to June 30, 1914. 
Experimental Work 
Extension Work 
Hog Cholera Serum 
Finances 


IOWA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 


D. D. Murphy, President.Elkader 

W. H. Gemmill, Secretary.Des Moines 

MEMBERS OF BOARD. 

TERM EXPIRES JULY 1, 1915. 

James H. Trewin..Cedar Rapids 

Roger Leavitt.Cedar Falls 

Edw. P. Schoentgen.Council Bluffs 

TERM EXPIRES JULY 1, 1917. 

A. B. Funk.Spirit Lake 

Geo. T. Baker.Davenport 

H. M. Eicher. Washington 

TERM EXPIRES JULY 1, 1919. 

P. K. Holbrook.Onawa 

Chas. R. Brenton.Dallas Center 

D. D. Murphy.Elkader 


STANDING COMMITTEES. 

Faculty Committee—D. D. Murphy, James H. Trewin, A. B. Funk, P. K. 
Holbrook, H. M. Eicher. 

Building and Business Committee—Chas. R. Brenton, James H. Trewin, 
Edw. P. Schoentgen, Geo. T. Baker, Roger Leavitt. 

FINANCE COMMITTEE. 


W. R. Boyd, Chairman.Cedar Rapids 

Thos. Lambert.Sabula 

W. H. Gemmill, Secretary.Des Moines 

INSPECTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS, 

P. E. McClenahan, Inspector.Des Moines 

John E. Foster, Assistant.Des Moines 

Leslie I. Reed, Assistant.Des Moines 




















LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND 
MECHANIC ARTS. 


To the Iowa State Board of Education. 

Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit to you herewith recom¬ 
mendations for appropriations for educational work, improvements, 
and enlargements at the Iowa State College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts in the biennium, July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1917; 
and my report on educational work, improvements, and enlarge¬ 
ments at the college in the biennium, July 1, 1912, to June 30, 1914. 

Through your unanimous action, it became my privilege to begin 
service as President of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts in September, 1912. In this, my first formal and 
required report, I desire to express my appreciation to all members 
of the Board of Education and Finance Committee for their sup¬ 
port. In accepting the position as President, I realized the great 
opportunity and responsibility of the office. Two years of service 
have made me the more appreciative of the responsibility and 
opportunity of this position and the more determined to assist to 
the extent of my ability in carrying forward the great work of 
the college along lines clearly specified in the National and State 
law T s under which the college is founded, and in accordance with 
the wishes of the Board of Education, the legislature and the 
people of the State. 

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the valuable service of Acting 
President Stanton, who administered the affairs of the college for 
a period of two years prior to the beginning of my service. As 
recognition of his long and efficient service and to assure his con¬ 
tinued connection with the most important affairs of the college, 
you have elected him, upon my recommendation, permanent Vice- 
President of the college. 


Very respectfully, 


Ames, Iowa. 
September 23, 1914. 


R. A. Pearson, 
President. 




APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED FOR EDUCA¬ 
TIONAL WORK, IMPROVEMENTS AND EN¬ 
LARGEMENTS AT THE COLLEGE. 

IN THE BIENNIUM JULY 1, 1915 TO JUNE BO, 1917. 

A. Present Appropriations to be Continued Annually. 

It is recommended that the following appropriations, which 
were available for the purposes indicated (including experiment 
and extension work) in each of the two years ending December 31, 
1915, under provision of Chapter 228 of the laws of the Thirty- 
fifth General Assembly, 1913, providing for a one-half mill tax, 
be made regular annual appropriations: 


Support for oollegiate departments.$ 125,000 

Agricultural Extension, including home economics.*.. 48,000 

Agricultural Experiment Station farm and work. 57,000 

Agricultural and home economics one and two year non-collegiate 

courses . 12,500 

Trade School and Engineering Extension. . 25,000 

Engineering Experiment Station . 6,000 

Veterinary Practitioners’ Course . 5,000 

Veterinary Investigations . 10,000 

Repair and Contingent . 10,000 

Two and four year courses in home economics for home makers 

and teachers . 20,000 

Equipment of departments and buildings . 40,000 

Maintenance and improvements of public grounds. 10,000 

Enlargement of buildings and small additional buildings. 10,000 


Total .$ 377,500 


This asking is in no sense an increase. It has been the custom 
for the legislature to make permanent annual appropriations for 
regular maintenance items at all institutions. Such items are 
being paid to the institutions without further legislative action. But 
in this case the items were provided for by special millage tax of 
limited duration, hence necessity of asking renewal. If this re¬ 
newal is allowed, work will continue as at present. If it is not 
allowed, work which is now being carried on will have to be aban¬ 
doned. 

B. Additional Maintenance for Educational Work at the 
College, Annually Beginning July 1, 1915. 

1. Support for collegiate departments and Summer Session.... $ 190,000 


2. Sub-collegiate courses in agriculture and home economics, and 

trade schools in engineering. 30,000 

3. Winter short courses in agriculture, home making, and trades 

and trade school work. 9.500 



















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C. Special Appropriations for Improvements at the College, 
Including Equipment, Repairs and Minor Structures, 
One-half of Which Aggregate May Be Used Each Year 
of the Biennial Period Beginning July 1, 1915. 

4. Additional equipment and furnishings for buildings and 

departments, including buildings now under construction...! 106,000 
6. Extension of heating system and equipment for heating plant. 39,600 
6. Repairs and improvements for dairy building, old agricultural 


hall, and barns, and provision for fruit storage. 8,000 

7. Temporary provision for home economics laboratories. 1,500 

8. For enlargements of buildings and additional small buildings. 30,000 

9. Settling and storage water tank and filter. 15,000 


In connection with the above recommendations, attention is called to 
appropriations by the last General Assembly amounting to ?92,000 to 
supplement certain items in the millage tax measure. With the arrange¬ 
ment of appropriations as indicated above, such supplementary item will 
not have to be requested for the coming biennium. 

D. A Special Additional Appropriation for Enlargements, 
Including Buildings and Land, to Supplement the 
Building Millage Tax, is Urgently Recommended. 

The following buildings and land are most needed at this time: 

(This list includes buildings which may be erected,on the special build¬ 


ing millage tax.) 

10. Animal husbandry laboratories .$ 85,000 

11. Science building . 65,000 

12. Hospital . 30,000 

13. Dairy cattle barn .20,000 

14. Library building . 225,000 

15. Addition to dairy building . 25,000 

16. Home economics building . 175,000 

17. Women’s dormitories and dining hall. 180,000 

18. Poultry building . 100,000 

19. Veterinary building enlargement *. 47,000 

20. Beef cattle barn. 20,000 

21. Abattoir . 25,000 

22. Physics building . 150,000 

23. Agricultural engineering building- . 150,000 

24. Judging pavilion and drill hall. 200,000 

26. Animal husbandry farm and buildings. 60,000 

26. Horticultural experiment farm . 10,000 

27. Veterinary research and serum farm. 32,000 

28. Additional land near the campus. 35,000 


It is recommended that approval of plans be secured for such buildings 
as it may be possible to erect during the biennium. 
























APPROPRIATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL WORK 


7 


BRIEF STATEMENTS IN SUPPORT OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 

APPROPRIATIONS. 

1. Support for Collegiate Departments and Summer Session_$190,000 

Enrollment this year, excluding the Summer Session, is practically 
double the enrollment of ten years ago. The increased support is needed 
chiefly for additional teachers, not to care for an anticipated further in¬ 
crease of enrollment, but to properly teach the present student body. The 
increase of the college support fund by the last Assembly relieved the 
abnormal pressure under which the faculty was then working. It was 
not suficient to provide for the increase of enrollment that has occurred 
during the past two years. The additional 659 students of the last two 
years could not have been cared for except that the faculty was willing 
to take on additional work in excess of what should be expected of them. 
If the faculty is relieved of its present pressure by the appointment of 
additional teachers, it is expected they will be able to care for such in¬ 
crease of enrollment as occurs in the present biennium. 

It is estimated that additional fuel and light and janitor service for 
the new buildings will cost $20,000 annually. 

Members of the present faculty are entitled to some salary increase. 
Salaries at Ames are very low as compared with other institutions. 
Salaries of corresponding positions in the University of Illinois average 
nearly $1,000 more per year. Better salaries and perquisites at other 
neighboring institutions are a constant handicap in securing and holding 
the best teachers at the State College. 

With the widening application of science to the industries, it becomes 
necessary to widen the scope of instruction, and this means an occasional 
establishment of a new department or sub-department. Such enlargements 
needed at this college include animal breeding, plant breeding, plant 
physiology, plant pathology, animal nutrition, telephone engineering, and 
highway engineering. 

The Summer Session should have at least $17,000 additional to permit 
the best instruction for the rural and grade teachers who wish to learn 
something of agriculture, trade school work, and home economics. The 
attendance at this session has been rapidly increasing. In 1914 it was 618 
as compared with 215 in 1913. In 191.5 it may be expected to exceed 1,000. 
It is proposed to double the length of the course so as to give the best 
possible assistance to the many hundreds of teachers who are forced by 
state legislation to prepare themselves along vocational lines. 

It is recommended that not to exceed five per cent of the total amount 
paid for salaries by the college shall be made available for retiring allow¬ 
ances at the discretion of the Board of Education. In this way the 
efficiency of the faculty will be increased without increased expense to 
the state. 

2. Sub-Collegiate Courses in Agriculture and Home Economics and Trade 

Schools in Engineering.$ 30,000 

Work of this grade should be strengthened for the large number of 
young men and women who have not finished accredited high school 
courses and wish to spend one or two years in preparation for useful 
vocations. With the educational environment and sympathies at this col¬ 
lege and the complete equipment which is provided for collegiate work, 
these courses can be given to greatest advantage. 

3. Winter Short Courses in Agriculture, Home Making, Trades and Trade 

School Work .$ 9,500 

This is to partially provide for short and intensely practical courses, 
largely for mature people who come to the college for a short period dur¬ 
ing the winter holidays. This instruction is given to many people who 




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could not secure it in any other way. The lives and work of many citizens 
are made more efficient by these courses. Special attention is given to 
live stock, field crops, horticulture, dairying, home economics, painting and 
house decorating. With added support, the scope can be enlarged to in¬ 
clude other branches which are insistently demanding attention. At least 
two-thirds of this appropriation should be directed to the strictly agri¬ 
cultural and home economics work. 

4. Additional equipment and furnishings for Buildings and Departments, 
including Buildings now under construction .$106,000 

This item is of the utmost importance. The college is without suitable 
equipment in chemistry, where 1,764 students are enrolled. The chemistry 
equipment was burned in the chemistry building about two years ago. As 
is customary, this state building was not insured. A special appropriation 
was made by the last Assembly but it was $60,000 less than recommended. 
The new chemitry building is now fitted throughout with temporary equip¬ 
ment. The welfare of the majority of tire students in the institution is 
concerned. At least $60,000 is needed for chemistry equipment. It should 
be noted that most of this is permanent equipment such as laboratory 
benches, and the asking will not need to be repeated when once granted. 

New equipment also will be needed for the science division and the 
hospital when located in larger quarters. 

The item requested also would provide for urgent needs in the Animal 
Husbandry Department where animals of different breeds are needed, both 
to provide for the increasing number of students and to replace stock 
which has outgrown its usefulness. The college should have representa¬ 
tive animals of all types that are economically important in Iowa. There 
should be at least one stallion and two mares belonging to each of the 
principal draft breeds, and one bull and two cows belonging to each of 
the principal beef and dairy breeds, also typical specimens of hog and 
sheep breeds. At least $20,000 should be expended for live stock and 
necessary accompanying equipment. 

One of the greatest needs of this college is a better reference library. 
Scientific investigations by members of the faculty and research students 
are severely handicapped by having to send away for scientific works 
needed temporarily. Too often the necessary books cannot be borrowed. 
The library has been poorly quartered and almost starved. To properly 
equip it in the single line of veterinary science so that it would contain 
the records of the best work done in Europe and America, would cost at 
least $15,000. Money spent for reference books is an economy because it 
enables investigators to quickly and accurately learn results of experi¬ 
ments elsewhere and thus it saves time and cost of duplicating experi¬ 
ments here. An expenditure of $25,000 could not be called extravagant as 
compared with the needs. 

Other departments are in need of much equipment to replace what is 
worn out and to increase the teaching facilities which are needed for larger 
classes. 

The equipment askings represent purchases which are needed at this 
time. It is difficult to see how a reduction of the items can result other¬ 
wise than merely to postpone some purchases and continue to that extent 
the embarrassment suffered by lack of equipment. In making these esti¬ 
mates for equipment effort has been made to hold them to the minimum. 


5. Extension of Heating System and equipment for Heating 

Plant .$ 39,600 

This is made necessary by increased demands for heat for new buildings, 
including the extension of the heating tunnel and steam and other pipe 




APPROPRIATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL WORK 


9 


lines. An economy will be effected when the tunnel loop is finished as 
indicated. The items making up the total are as follows: 


2 500 H. P. boilers .$ 7,000 

2 sets chain grate stokers. 3,425 

Piping for boilers . 1,200 

Foundations and settings . 2,l(f0 

Coal hopper . 1,500 

Ash conveyor . 2,500 

Turrell regulator . 675 

Railroad scales . 1,500 

Car moving apparatus . 425 

Feed water pump for boilers. 750 

Breeching to boilers . 450 

Exciter and alternating current machine. 1,475 

Vacuum system for heating three buildings. 1,000 

600 ft. heating tunnel to complete the tunnel loop. 7,200 

700 ft. heating tunnel to new buildings. 8,400 


$ 39,600 


6. Repairs and Improvements for Dairy Building, Old Agricultural Hall, 
Barns, and Provision for Fruit Storage .$ 8,000 

Considerable space now useless or partially used can be made available. 
Some of the barns need overhauling to provide modern systems of venti¬ 
lation and to allow portions of these buildings to be used for different 
purposes than originally planned. A small building is needed for tem¬ 
porary protection of fruit when it is collected in the fall and must be 
held for a short time prior to marketing. The value of such a building 
could be saved in one or two seasons by the protection it would afford. 

If provision is made for a new agricultural engineering building during 
the biennium, $15,000 should be provided for remodeling the building which 
that department now occupies so that it may be used for other lines of 
work. 


7. Temporary provision for Home Economics Laboratories .$ 1,500 

Nearly 600 students are now taking work in the home economics build¬ 
ing which was planned for about 250. Four laboratories will need to be 
fitted up next year in some other building. These will require cabinets 
and fitting rooms and they will be regarded as temporary because no 
other building can permanently spare the space. Some further changes 
also should be made in the laboratories of the present building to provide 
for the handling of larger classes, 

8. Enlargements of buildings and temporary small buildings ....$30,000 

A considerable number of small buildings are needed to properly supple¬ 
ment the larger buildings and to provide for instructional and experi¬ 
mental requirements distant from the main campus. At least $5.0,000 could 
be used to decided advantage in this manner, but the item named would 
be sufficient to somewhat relieve the situation. Among the buildings most 
urgently needed are the following*' 

(a) Cottages for foremen and laborers.$14,000 

The greatest difficulty is experienced in securing and holding good help 
on the college farms and other premises because of distance from residences 
for such persons. It is desirable also to have at least a few reliable men 
quartered near the college buildings to furnish help at a time of fire or 
other emergency. 




















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(b) Barn for Dairy Bulls.$2,000 

Separate quarters are desirable for the several bulls which have to be 
maintained to represent different leading breeds at the Dairy Farm. 

Jic) Poultry Houses .;.$1,350 

Additional houses are needed to provide instruction for larger classes 
in poultry husbandry. 

(d) Agricultural Engineering Annex.$10,000 

The agricultural engineering department needs suitable quarters for 
storing and demonstrating large tractors and other agricultural machin¬ 
ery. About $25,000 worth of such apparatus has been loaned to the col¬ 
lege and much of it cannot be given good care because of limited space. 
The structure proposed is a cheap but durable shed building, 

(e) Student quarters, cattle shed and judging pavilion.$10,000 

As the dairy farm is about a mile from the campus, it is necessary that 
a shed or pavilion be provided for stock judging and demonstration work 
on farms. It is also desirable to have students’ quarters provided there 
for the accommodation of limited numbers of students who are assigned 
to the work of caring for stock and obtaining practical instruction. 

(f) Shelter for rattler and grinding machines.$950 

It is proposed to build a small addition to one of the engineering build¬ 
ings, at a point which will not disfigure the building, to accommodate the 
rattler and grinding machines which are noise and dirt producers and 
should be kept in quarters separate from other lines of work. 

(g) Outside kiln and shed for ceramics.$1,000 

The need for this is due to the fact that the kilns are now located in 
a space which is also used for other purposes and these other purposes 
must be sacrificed when a blast is on because of uncomfortable heat. 

(h) Storehouse for foundry castings and supplies.$1,000 

At the present time these castings and supplies are stored out of doors 
and they are deteriorating because of exposure to the weather. There 
are losses, also, which would not occur if a suitable building were used. 


(i) Building for ore dressing and coal washing.$7,000 

This is to house equipment which is needed to permit necessary practi¬ 
cal instruction in mining engineering. 

(j) Temporary building for Trade School courses.$4,000 


These courses are making a good beginning. Laboratory rooms are 
needed for some of the work which it has not been feasible to provide 
for in the .regular college laboratories. Later, with the enlargement of 
the college plant, permanent laboratories may be provided, but in the 
meantime a temporary building would serve the purpose. 


(k) Practice cottage for the home economics division.$5,000 

(l) Small animal building and rendering plant for the veterinary 

division .^.^....$7,000 

(m) Indoor Rifle Range .$8,000 


This is much needed in the military training department. Military train¬ 
ing is required at this college as a consideration in connection with th« 
federal appropriations. Thus, far special equipment has not been furnished, 
but the United States Government is becoming more and more insistent 
in this matter. 














APPROPRIATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL WORK 11 

(n) Experimental Farm Buildings including storage quarters and 

other small structures .$4,000 

9. Settling and Storage Water Tank and Filter.$15,000 


The college water supply at times is as brown as coffee due to heavy 
iron content. The matter has been studied by competent engineers and 
they agree that a settling and storage tank with gravity filter will prove 
a satisfactory remedy. The amount requested is the result of a care¬ 
ful estimate. 

10. Animal Husbandry Laboratories.$85,000 

The Animal Husbandry department needs more building space on 
account of its increased enrollment and to permit widening the scope of 
its work. 

11. Science Building ...$65,000 

Almost all of the departments in the Division of Science are severely 
taxed in efficiency on account of their limited space. These departments 
carry heavy work for all divisions of the college. The division is parti¬ 
cularly short of laboratory space and it is proposed that two departments 
giving much laboratory work, namely, bacteriology and zoology, shall be 
quartered in the building. By removing these departments from their 
present quarters, other departments will be able to expand into the space 
vacated. This would provide for about twenty additional class rooms which 
are needed. 

12. Hospital .$30,000 

Hospital facilities are urgently needed. At present there is an old 
residence building in use as a hospital. It is frequently overcrowded and 
many sick students must remain in their boarding houses. There are 
several thousand calls for help at the hospital every year and several 
hundred bed cases. 

13. Dairy Cattle Barn .$20,000 

A modern dairy barn is needed to suitably care for the stock in hand 

and to show the latest and best ideas in dairy barn construction, The 

present building could easily be adapted for a stock judging pavilion which 
is greatly needed on the dairy farm. 

14. Library Building .$225,000 

The college work is greatly handicapped for the want of a library 
building. The urgent recommendation of the Faculty Library Committee, 
that an adequate fireproof building be erected in the near future for 
library purposes, is strongly approved. The library occupies a few recita¬ 
tion rooms and some corridor space in Central building. The Faculty room 
has been given up for a general reading and study room. These quarters 
are entirely too small. New books cannot be properly cared for. Seminar 
work, which is so important in a scientific institution, is greatly handicap¬ 
ped. Research work is interfered with. Students’ efforts in connection 
with debating and literary societies are discouraged. A new library build¬ 
ing would be an immense relief. It should have space where students can 
profitably spend spare hours between recitations and laboratory work and 
facilities where they may go to look up special subjects assigned to them 
for study. Necessary space for literary societies should be provided in 
this building. 

In the library building, or separately, there should be provided an audi¬ 
torium for general meetings. It should have seating space for at least 
2,500 people. Such a building is needed many times for convocations and 









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for lectures and musical events, besides commencement and special occa¬ 
sions. There is now no hall on the campus large enough to hold even 
the freshman class. For any such purpose the gymnasium must be seated 
at considerable cost, besides inconvenience to the required physical train¬ 
ing work for one or two days. 

15. Addition to Dairy Building .$25,000 

The present building has been in service several years and is now out¬ 
grown. It does not have space for instruction in cheesemaking because 
this work has been crowded out by market milk. The proposed addition 
would provide for cheesemaking, certain phases of market milk, and ice 
cream work, and -a class room and laboratory. 

16. Home Economics Building .$175,000 

The Home Economics division is growing more rapidly than any other 
division in the college. It will continue to grow rapidly. The present 
building was intended to accommodate 250 to 300 students. Double the num- 
oer are now taking their work in that building and overflow rooms out¬ 
side. The present home economics building could be utilized by other 
departments of the college with almost negligible cost for alterations. 
The division, which stands pre-eminently for woman’s work at the col¬ 
lege should have a structure commensurate With its importance and 
dignity. 

17. Women’s Dormitories and Dining Hall .$180,000 

The limit of available accommodations in Ames has been reached. 
Furthermore, the impression is getting out through the state that students 
should not come to this college because suitable living quarters cannot be 
found. The question of rooming the student body is one which is causing 
much anxiety. In the last biennium, when the enrollment of young women 
increased more than 250, the state has provided additional accommoda¬ 
tions for less than half this number. Fireproof dormitories should be 
provided as soon as possible for all women students. No one can see a 
student rooming house in flames without coming to this conviction,—arid 
such an experience has been had one or more times in practically every 
college in the country. Already too many students are living in rooms 
which they should not be compelled to occupy. The erection of dormitories 
for young women students means a benefit to the entire student body 
because they would serve to vacate houses now occupied by young women 
and which are greatly needed by the increasing numbers of young men. 
The college is receiving more and more demands from parents who insist 
that their daughters shall be located in buildings that are entirely under 
college control. These buildings can be made to pay all their expenses, 
and money spent in them should be looked upon as an investment. 

18. Poultry Building .$100,000 

The poultry products of the state are reported as worth over $50,000,000. 
This great industry concerns almost every one who lives in the country 
and a large number of residents of towns. Instruction is needed and it 
is asked for. A modest structure for the interests concerned could be pro¬ 
vided for the amount named, 

19. Veterinary Building Enlargement .$47,000 

The veterinary buildings are large enough except in respect to a few 
phases of the work. These include instruction to the increasing numbers 
of agricultural students, and research. It is proposed to enlarge one of 
the wings. 







APPROPRIATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL WORK 


13 


20. Beef Cattle Barn .$20,000 

The present beef cattle barn was built many years ago. It might have 
been a good structure for certain purposes but it is not now well adapted 
for housing animals. It is old and unsafe and causes much criticism 
from farmers who themselves have far better equipment. 

21. Abattoir .$25,000 

Provision needs to be given for instruction in slaughtering animals, 
and dressing and caring for meats, especially for local markets. A large 
amount of slaughtering is now going on in temporary quarters in con¬ 
nection with hog cholera serum manufacture and the slaughtering of 
animals in the Animal Husbandry department. 

22. Physics Building .$150,000 

The Physics Department is one of the largest in the college. The work 
given by the department has nearly doubled in three years and the present 
quarters are inadequate and also not adapted to the work. The depart¬ 
ment is unable to give laboratory work with some of its courses because 
of lack of space. A new building adapted to the work would greatly 
increase the efficiency of the instruction given. 

23. Agricultural Engineering Building.$150,000 

Nearly 1,800 students are taking work in the Agricultural Engineering 
Department. A large amount of equipment having high value is loaned 
by manufacturers. The department needs more room for instruction and 
more room for storage. This department has grown so rapidly and has 
become so firmly established that it should have a building better adapted 
to its needs. The building which it now occupies could well be used for 
sub-collegiate work. 

24. Judging Pavilion and Drill Hall .$200,000 

The charter of this college requires instruction in military tactics. A 
large sum of money is received annually from the United States Govern¬ 
ment with the understanding that this provision of the charter will be 
faithfully observed. The War Department has been lenient with this and 
other institutions, but their requirements are becoming more exacting. 
It is of the highest importance that, in case of need, college trained young 
men shall be qualified to serve as lieutenants in the army. There is prob¬ 
ably no point in the state where military training can be given to better 
advantage than at the land grant college. The same structure would serve 
advantageously as a judging pavilion when large quarters are needed. 
Also, it would serve for agricultural shows and demonstrations. In these 
respects it would serve a valuable purpose. 

25. Animal Husbandry Farm and Building .$60,000 

The educational and experimental work of the Animal Husbandry De¬ 
partment is greatly handicapped because of lack of farm facilities. This 
department stands for the greatest activities of the state. It should have 
considerable land area and farm buildings so that it can develop and 
illustrate its teachings. 

26. Horticultural Experiment Farm .$10,000 

The Horticultural Department needs a farm at a point distant from 
Ames where soil conditions and climate are somewhat different, for the 
purpose of developing and testing varieties and supplementing the work 
which is under way on the college farm. 









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27. Veterinary Research and Serum Farm .* .$32,000 

To satisfactorily conduct veterinary research, a farm is needed for the 
accommodation of animals under observation and other animals used in 
the production of protective lymphs and anti-toxins, etc. 

28. Additional Land near the Campus .$35,000 

Additional land for college purposes is certain to be needed in the very 
near future, and it would be an economy to secure it at this time before 
prices are further advanced. The need of the land arises especially in 
connection with housing of students and providing suitable exercise 
grounds. 


REPORT ON EDUCATIONAL WORK, IMPROVE¬ 
MENTS, AND ENLARGEMENTS AT THE COL¬ 
LEGE IN THE BIENNIUM JULY 1, 1912, 

TO JUNE 30, 1914. 

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THE STUDENT BODY. 

ENROLLMENT. 

The rapid increase of enrollment in recent years in this land 
grant college and in similar land grant colleges in other leading 
states is one of the most striking developments of the day in the 
educational world. To care for our increase of enrollment, which 
is 659 in two years, is our chief problem and explains our chief 
needs. The increase of 659 does not include Short Course or Sum¬ 
mer Session students but those who are in the college for the full 
academic year. 

The following table and accompanying chart show the enroll¬ 
ment for the year 1897-98 and each year since: 






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It will be noted that the largest increase is in agriculture and 
the next largest is in home economics. These two lines of work 
have attracted the greatest increases in student enrollment gen¬ 
erally throughout the country. The reason is easy to understand. 
A vast store of knowledge concerning agriculture and home mak¬ 
ing has been developed during the last few years. This is now 
in form to be given to the people. The benefits of having this 
knowledge are being realized more and more. A. new State law 
requires vocational instruction in the public schools, which means 
many teachers must be trained in agriculture, trade school work 
and domestic science. In a short time college enrollment in these 
two subjects may be expected to reach its normal level as has been 
the experience in other lines of instruction, which were earlier 
established in schools and colleges and have had their periods of 
rapid growth. 

Enrollment in engineering courses shows a decrease in recent 
years at the State College but not as much decrease as was experi¬ 
enced at most other institutions. This was due to economic con¬ 
ditions throughout the whole country and already there is evidence 
that conditions are changing and the engineering enrollment will 
show an increase. 

The decrease shown in enrollment in veterinary medicine was 
due to raising the entrance requirements so that this work would 
rest on the same educational basis as other important branches. 
The decrease of enrollment in industrial science is an indication 
of the preference of young people to prepare themselves for the 
more practical special technical lines rather than in the general 
sciences, which may not offer as many well paying positions. The 
following tables show the number of students in each class and 
course in the years 1912-13 and 1913-14: 


Summary of Enrollment. 


Year 1912-13. 


1—Division of Agriculture. 


Graduate Students: 

Agronomy 
Animal Husbandry 
Horticulture and Forestry 
Dairying 


1 

5 

3 


2 11 


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Senior Class: 


Agronomy 

19 


Dairying 

11 


Animal Husbandry 

54 


Horticulture and Forestry 

9 


Agricultural Engineering 

7 


Agricultural Education 

3 


Home Economics 

22 


Science and Agriculture 

1 

126 

Junior Class: 

Agronomy 

19 


Dairying 

9 


Animal Husbandry 

58 


Horticulture and Forestry 

13 


Agricultural Engineering 

9 


Home Economics 

46 

154 

Sophomore Class: 



Agronomy 

22 


Animal Husbandry 

100 


Dairying 

19 


Horticulture and Forestry 

17 


Agricultural Education 

7 


Agricultural Engineering 

22 


Home Economics 

76 

263 

Freshman Class: 

Agriculture 

289 


Agricultural Engineering 

51 


Agricultural Education 

12 


Home Economics 

167 

519 

Specials: 

Agriculture 

19 

19 

Irregular: 

Home Economics 

10 

10 

Short Courses: 

Two Year Agriculture 

183 


One Year Dairying 

35 

218 

Winter Short Courses: 

Agronomy and Animal 

Husbandry 

565 


Farm Dairying 

15 


Creamerymen 

80 


Home Economics 

61 

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Summer Course 
Winter Course 

2— Division of Veterinary Medicine. 

Senior Class 
Junior Class 
Sophomore Class 
Freshman Class 

3— Division of Engineering. 

Senior Class: 

Mechanical Engineering 
Civil Engineering 
^ Electrical Engineering 
Mining Engineering 
Ceramics 

Junior Class: 

Mechanical Engineering 
Civil Engineering 
Electrical Engineering 
Mining Engineering 

Sophomore Class: 

Mechanical Engineering 
Civil Engineering 
Electrical Engineering 
Mining Engineering 
Ceramics 

Industrial Chemistry 

Freshman Class: 

Mechanical Engineering 
Civil Engineering 
Electrical Engineering 
Mining Engineering 
Ceramics 

Industrial Chemistry 
Specials: 

Mining Engineering 
Irregular: 

Mechanical Engineering 
Civil Engineering 


65 

5 73 2114 


21 

18 

15 

16 70 70 


23 

36 

18 

6 

1 84 


23 

31 

32 

2 88 


22 

29 

49 

7 

2 

1 110 


68 

45 

82 

5 

3 

4 207 


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2 

3 5 495 


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4—Division of Science. 


• Graduate Students 

4 



Senior Class 

11 



Junior Class 

5 



Sophomore Class 

21 



Freshman Class 

26 



Specials 

4 



Irregular 

3 

74 

74 

5—Department of Music. 




Collegiate Course 

9 



Unclassified 

121 

130 

130 

6—Summer School. 

128 

128 

128 

Total 



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Less duplicates 



129 




2882 


Music (unclassified) 55 

Summer School 44 

Winter Short Course 30 


129 


Summary of Enrollment. 
Year 1913-14. 


1—Division of Agriculture. 

Graduate Students 

Agricultural Education 
Agronomy 
Animal Husbandry 
Horticulture 
Senior Class 

Agricultural Education 
Agricultural Engineering 
Agronomy 
Animal Husbandry 
Dairying 
Forestry 
Horticulture 
Junior Class 

Agricultural Education 

Agricultural Engineering 

Agronomy 

Animal Husbandry 

Dairying 

Forestry 

Horticulture 


2 

3 

3 

4 12 
2 

13 

15 

56 

10 

9 

5 110 

5 

11 

20 

69 

17 

4 

6 132 


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Sophomore Class 

Agricultural Education 10 

Agricultural Engineering 40 

Agronomy 52 

Animal Husbandry 92 

Dairying 13 

Forestry 17 

Horticulture 8 232 

Freshman Class 

Agricultural Education 14 

Agricultural Engineering 69 

Agriculture 371 454 

Specials 

Agricultural Education 3 

Agricultural Engineering 2 

Agriculture 5 

Forestry 1 

Horticulture 1 12 

Irregular 

Agriculture 1 

Forestry 1 2 

Non-Collegiate 

Two-Year Agriculture 230 

One-Year Dairying 45 275 

Winter Short Courses 

Agronomy and Animal Hus¬ 
bandry 462 

Creamerymen 115 

Farm Dairying 27 604 

2—Division of Engineering. 

Senior Class 

Agricultural Engineering 13 

Chemical Engineering 2 

Civil Engineering 27 

Electrical Engineering 21 

Mechanical Engineering 20 

Mining Engineering 2 85 

Junior Class 

Agricultural Engineering 11 

Chemical Engineering 1 

Civil Engineering 24 

Electrical Engineering 32 

Mechanical Engineering 12 

Mining Engineering 3 83 


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Sophomore Class 

Agricultural Engineering 
Ceramics 

Chemical Engineering 
Civil Engineering 
Electrical Engineering 
Mechanical Engineering 
Mining Engineering 

Freshman Class 

Agricultural Engineering 
Ceramics 

Chemical Engineering 
Civil Engineering 
Electrical Engineering 
Mechanical Engineering 
Mining Engineering 
Structure Design 

Specials 

Agricultural Engineering 
Irregular 

Civil Engineering 
Mechanical Engineering 

Non-Collegiate 

Two-Year Trade School 
Winter Short Courses 
Painters 
Engineering 
Highway Engineering 

3— Division of Home Economics, 

Senior Class 
Junior Class 
Sophomore Class 
Freshman Class 
Specials 
Irregulars 
Non-Collegiate 

Two-Year Home Economics 
Winter Short Course 

4— Division of Science. 

Graduate Students 
Senior Class 
Junior Class 
Sophomore Class 
Freshman Class 


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39 

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69 

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95 

67 

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51 

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60 

96 

239 437 

6 6 

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13 
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Irregulars 

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91 


91 


Graduate Students 

1 



Senior Class 

14 



Junior Class 

17 



Sophomore Class 

14 



Freshman Class 

31 

77 

77 

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Collegiate Course 

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139 

139 

ner School 

215 

215 

215 

Total 



3740 

Less Duplicates 




Agricultural Engineering 

135 



Summer Session 

63 



Music 

84 

282 

282 


3458 


If the student enrollment appears large it should be remembered 
that enormous interests are to be served. A large number of well 
trained men and women will be required in the State of Iowa to 
maintain her present standing against the increasing difficulties 
that come with increasing years of settlement and to develop her 
resources and maintain her position as compared with other states 
where wonderful progress is being made in connection with investi¬ 
gation and education along technical lines. In this conection some 
statistical data are of interest. 

According to the 1910 census for the United States, Iowa had 
217,044 farms with a total value of farm property of $3,745,860,544. 
The value increased 104% in the ten years ending 1910. Of this 
amount $2,801,973,729 was in land; $455,405,671 was in buildings; 
$95,477,948 in implements and machinery and $393,003,196 in 
live stock. The value of corn, Iowa’s chief crop, exceeds $200,000,000 
per year. 

According also to federal authority, in 1909 Iowa had 5,528 
manufacturing establishments, which employed an average of 
78,360 persons and paid out during the year $43,514,000 in sal¬ 
aries and wages. The value of all manufactured products was 
$259,238,000. The State Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the 
value of manufactured products for the year 1913 as $406,225,576, 
which is an increase of about 57 per cent over the amount reported 


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IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


by the United States census for 1909. Iowa also produced products 
to the amount of $13,877,781 from mines and quarries. 

Every county in the State is represented by a good-sized delega¬ 
tion in the student enrollment. The number from Story county 
is particularly large because many families move to Ames and make 
this city their home while the young people are being educated. 
In 1912-13 seven families in Iowa were represented by three chil¬ 
dren in the College. One hundred and three families were repre¬ 
sented by two members. Thirty-five families in Ames sent two 
or more students, or altogether 76, to the College. There is a con¬ 
siderable number of students from other states but they do not 
equal in number the Iowa students enrolled in other states. 

A small number of foreign students is included in our enroll¬ 
ment. These pay the additional tuition fee required of students 
from out of the State. In a personal letter the United States Com¬ 
missioner of Education, Honorable P. P. Claxton, calls attention 
to the fact that the European war may be expected to have the 
effect of sending more foreign students to American institutions 
of higher learning. Some may come from the countries that are 
at war but more from South American and other peaceful coun¬ 
tries whose young men have been going to England and Germany 
and France. In addition, the American students who would go 
abroad will now ask for instruction at home. Iowa State College 
will feel the effect of this added demand caused by the deplorable 
conditions in Europe. The graphic bn page 229 shows the stu¬ 
dent enrollment by counties for the academic year of 1913-1914 
and the one on page 230 shows the enrollment by states for the 
same year. 


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EFFICIENCY LECTURES. 

The chief drawback to good scholarship in the case of too many 
of our new students is that they do not know how to study. They 
have not learned to concentrate their efforts on one subject. The 
students readily acknowledge this fact. Its result is that many a 
student does not get into the heart of his work until he has spent 
some months in college classes. A new plan has been adopted 
whereby all freshmen students are given five efficiency lectures 
early in their first semester. In the fall of 1913 these lectures were 
first given and the speakers were: 

October 6—Student Economics, 

By President Pearson. 

October 13—College Spirit, 

By Mrs. Hattie Moore Mitchell, of Des Moines. 

October 27—(For Men) Personal Hygiene, 

By Professor Hackett. 

(For Women) Same Subject, 

By Dr. Frances Brown Sherbon, of Colfax. 

November 10—(For Men) Student Habits, 

By Rev. Howland Hanson, of Des Moines. 

(For Women) Same Subject, 

By Mrs. S. K. Stevenson, of Iowa City. 

November 24—(For Men) Disease Carriers, 

By Dean Buchanan. 

Later—(For Women) Same Subject, Same Speaker. 

SELF-SUPPORT. 

The students attending this College are an earnest, high-minded 
group. Cliques and snobbery and shiftlessness do not prevail. The 
young man or woman of small means, if character is right, has 
the same standing as any other student even though it is necessary 
to do menial work to help pay expenses. A few students wholly 
support themselves; a large number of students partly support 
themselves. This class is encouraged in every w T ay possible, but 
all students are advised to provide themselves with sufficient funds 
to cover all expenses for the first year of work. This permits them 
to get acquainted with conditions and to find suitable location for 
their second year where they may earn money and, most important, 
it enables them to put their whole strength upon the important 
foundation work of the freshman year. Some statistics showing 
the extent to which students contribute to their own support while 
in college, as reported by the Y. M. C. A. Employment Bureau, are 
as follows: 


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IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


About 350 earn their board by working as stewards, treasurers, waiters, 
dishwashers, and helpers in clubs, fraternities and cafes. 

Nearly every club, fraternity and rooming house, and a number of 
private homes furnish rooms to students who take care of furnaces and 
do odd jobs. 

Six earn all their college expenses as stenographers. Others do some 
work of this kind to help out on expenses. 

Two men earn their college expenses by photographic work. 

One man pays his expenses by mending shoes. 

Eight students act as agents for laundries. 

Three deliver daily papers. 

Several students canvass clubs, etc., representing wholesale grocery and 
supply houses. 

Several students receive rooms in college buildings for janitor work 
which they do. 

Two hundred work at odd jobs Saturdays and other days when they • 
have time off. 

The college departments employ student help in so far as possible. 
Advanced students assist to a limited extent in laboratories and they 
assist professors in getting together materials for lectures and labora¬ 
tories. Other work for the College includes labor on the farm, in the 
orchards and experimental plats, in the barns, mailing bulletins, correct¬ 
ing essays, etc. 

The College treasurer’s books show that in one recent year 802 
students received $26,436 for work done for the College; 642 of 
them received less than $50 each, 46 received from $100 to $200 
each. It is estimated that other student earnings amount to about 
$20,000 per year. Many students earn a large part of their ex¬ 
penses during the long summer vacation. 

FEES. 

Under provision of the law, tuition is free for students residing 
in Iowa. For others it is $25 per semester or $50 per year. Your 
Board has allowed eight free tuition scholarships annually for each 
of the four classes. This is in recognition of the fact that a large 
part'of the support of'this College is from the National Govern¬ 
ment and therefore is paid by other states and we have some 
obligation to these other states for this reason and because they, 
without charge, or in some cases for only nominal charge, are 
-educating large numbers of youth from Iowa. There is some ad¬ 
vantage, also, to a student body in having a few bright minds from 
other states and colleges mingling among them and through these 
few scholarships such students are encouraged to attend this col¬ 
lege. 


THE STUDENT BODY 


29 


All students are charged fees to cover cost of material supplied 
to them for class room and laboratory work. These cover mimeo¬ 
graph notes which in a large measure take the place of expensive 
text hooks, and chemical substances which are used in experiments, 
and breakage of glassware which has been loaned to students. 
There is a general fee to cover incidental charges such as janitor 
services and hospital services and certain other necessary items. 
This has been reduced by the Board of Education from $10 to $9 
per semester and should be further reduced whenever possible. 
The total amount of required fees is about $20 a semester or $40 
a year. 

ROOMING FACILITIES. 

In general the rooming facilities are good. The majority of 
students are located in private rooming houses. Some are in club 
or fraternity houses, but there is a shortage of rooms. Prominent 
business men of Ames and members of the faculty have recently 
organized a Building and Loan Association and this is expected 
to make it easier for responsible people without ready capital to 
build homes and thus to relieve in part the pressing need for more 
rooms for students. City authorities state that about 150 houses 
were erected in the summer of 1914. The faculty committee on 
Public Safety has done good work in getting fire escapes put onto 
many houses, but the fire risk is still a large risk. 

ORGANIZATIONS. 

There are many students’ organizations and these are encour¬ 
aged in so far as good service is rendered. There are literary 
societies, technical clubs and fraternities, sororities and other social 
and general organizations. Membership in fraternities and sorori¬ 
ties is dependent upon scholarship and this restriction appears to 
be approved by the societies as well as the Scholarship Committee. 

PUBLICATIONS. 

There are several publications controlled by students, including 
the following: 

Iowa State Student, published three times a week. 

Iowa Agriculturist, published monthly during the College year. 

Iowa Engineer, published monthly during the College year. 

The Bomb, annual publication by the junior class. 

I. S. C. Alumnus, monthly ten months of the year. 

During this biennium some interesting and promising innova¬ 
tions in connection with student conduct and the manageuj mt of 
<#rtain college affair* have been introduced. 


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IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


FACULTY ADVISERS. 

All freshmen students are now assigned to faculty members who 
serve as their special friendly advisers. Each member of the 
faculty who is able and willing to assume the task (and this in¬ 
cludes practically all) has from five to ten freshmen students 
assigned to him or her, and endeavors to keep in close touch with 
these students through the year. Friendly conferences are held. The 
student is given to understand that the faculty adviser wishes to 
assist in every way possible. This relationship in many instances 
becomes close, friendly and most helpful as is shown by the records 
in the registrar’s office and otherwise. In some cases the faculty 
member is assisted by a senior student. 

STUDENT AND FACULTY CO-OPERATION. 

Certain faculty committees are now assisted by students who are 
elected by their classes for this purpose. In many cases students 
are as much interested and are as efficient in looking after the 
college interests as a faculty member could be. It is a valuable 
training to the student to serve, and this service helps to promote 
close and friendly relationship between students and faculty. At 
present the student co-operaion with the faculty committees is on 
the following basis: 

Grounds and Buildings Committee— 

3 members from each class. 

2 members from two-year agricultural courses. 

1 member from two-year home makers’ course. 

1 member from two-year trade school courses. 

Moral Welfare Committee— 

• 3 members from each class. 

2 members from two-year agricultural courses. 

1 member from two-year home makers’ course. 

1 member from two-year trade school courses. 

Public Health Committee— 

3 members from each class. 

2 members from two-year agricultural courses. 

1 member from two-year home makers’ course. 

1 member from two-year trade school courses. 

Publicity Committee— 

4 members from each of the three upper classes. 


THE STUDENT BODY 


31 


Public Safety Committee— 

3 members from each class. 

2 members from two-year agricultural courses. 

1 member from two-year home makers’ course. 

1 member from two-year trade school courses. 

Public Service— 

4 members from each of the two upper classes. 

Gymnasium Evening Committee— 

5 members from each of the two lower classes. 

At first it was planned that the students would have their own 
organization and assist the faculty committees, but in October, 
1913, at a conference attended by the President and the Chairmen 
of the above named faculty committees, and representative mem¬ 
bers of the corresponding student committees* it was unanimously 
agreed that: 

(1) All student members should receive notice of all meetings of the 
Faculty Committees wtih which they co-operate. 

(2) All students should attend certain of these meetings when espe¬ 
cially requested. 

(3) Selected representatives of the students should attend every 
meeting of the Faculty Committee with which they co-operate. 

(4) Students should hold separate meetings as desired. 

(5) Each student should have the same voting right as a member of 
the Faculty Committee. 

(6) The different classes should be requested to make the present 
appointments on these co-operating committees permanent for the College 
year. 

(7) Members of committees should be permitted to retain their badges 
after the period of service. 

PROTECTION OF COLLEGE PROPERTY. 

A new plan of making the whole student body feel responsible 
for and interested in the protection of college property is being 
tried. Every college suffers more or less loss through petty thefts 
of property and unnecessary breakage or other injury to its prop¬ 
erty. These losses have to be considered by administrative officers 
in making up the budgets. The losses are very often due to per 
sons who have no connection with the institution. In order to 
check such losses to the utmost and in order to remove the chance 
of any person getting the idea that, because of unnecessary loss or 
injury, money appropriated by the legislature is used to repair or 
replace equipment already paid for by the State, the Board of 
Education set aside last year $2,000 from the amount paid in 
by the students as incidental fees. It was announced that from 


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IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


the fund thus created all payments would be made for replacing 
college property which was removed or unnecessarily injured, and 
that the balance would be turned back to the student body for 
such use as they might wish in connection with improvements upon 
the campus, or for the college welfare. The student body became 
interested in reducing such items of expense. They became more 
watchful, and losses decreased. At the close of the year it was 
found that only $283.63 had been paid out, leaving a balance of 
$1,761.37 to be turned back to the student body, for some im¬ 
provement or betterment. 

A helpful influence toward the maintenance of the highest stand¬ 
ards of good order was furnished by the class of 1914. When they 
were juniors, in October, 1912, this class adopted a resolution, 
pledging themselves to assist in developing such standards in the 
interest of the good name of the college. 

MORAL INFLUENCES. 


The moral standing of the student body and moral influences 
operating within it are worthy of note. The religious preferences 
of students are indicated by the following data collected by the 
registrar, for the year 1913-14. 


Methodist . 810 

Baptist . 148 

Congregational . 335 

Presbyterian . 386 

Catholic . 109 

Evangelical . 19 

Lutheran . 124 

Mission . 1 

London Mission . 1 

Swedish Mission . 2 

Episcopalian . 73 

Christian Science . 15 

United Presbyterian . 21 

Christian . 154 

Unitarian . 13 

Free Methodist ...» . 1 

People’s Liberal Church. 1 

Restitution . 2 

Universal . 3 


German Reform . 2 

Free Reform. 2 

Reformed . 4 

United Brethren . 23 

Latter Day Saints. 4 

Progressive Brethren. 2 

Jewish . 5 

Mennonite . 1 

Church of God. 1 

Christadelphian . 3 

Friends . 20 

Armenian . 1 

St. Jacob’s Reformed. 1 

Dunkard. 1 

Church of England. 1 

African M. E. 1 

No preference given. 311 


Total 


,611 


Among the more evident moral influences in operation through' 
out the year are the following: 

L. The Sunday morning chapel services held in agricultural 
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THE STUDENT BODY 


33 


accept special invitations to come to the college for this single 
service. These services are well attended. Often the hall is filled 
to its capacity of nearly 900. An attractive feature of the service 
is the music furnished by a choir of college students. 

During last year the speakers included: 

Bishop H. S. Longley, Des Moines, Iowa, Episcopal Church. 

Mr. A. J. Elliott, General Secretary, Y. M. C. A., New York City. 

President A. E. Craig, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa. 

Dr. E. A. Steiner, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. 

Mr. E. P. Colton, General Secretary, Y. M. C. A., New York City. 

Dr. J. F. Newton, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

President D. E. Jenkins, Theological Seminary, Omaha, Neb. 

President R. W. Cooper, Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa. 

President E. E. Sparks, Pennsylvania State College. 

Dr. Osborne, Congregational Church, Burlington, Iowa. 

Dr. Howland Hanson, Baptist Church (First), Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dr. E. E. Hastings, President of Presbyterian Synod, Iowa. 

Bishop Henderson, Bishop in Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch, Rochester Theological Seminary, New York. 

Dr. C. S. Medbury, Christian Church, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dr. J. J. Fitzpatrick, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Marshalltown, Iowa. 

Dr. Herbert Martin, Drake Theological Seminary, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dr. R. C. Hughes, Secretary, Educational Board of Presbyterian Church. 

Dr. B. S. Hayward, Kansas City, Mo. 

President J. A. Earle, President of Des Moines College. 

Dr. Harry D. Ward, Boston Theological Seminary, Boston. 

2. Morning chapel service from 7 :45 to 8:00 o’clock five morn¬ 
ings of the week. This service is conducted by the college chap¬ 
lain with different members of the faculty usually serving as 
speakers. Prominent visitors to the college are sometimes heard. 
The attendance at this service is voluntary and usually falls be¬ 
tween 100 and 400. 

3. Churches of leading denominations in the city of Ames. The 
city is particularly fortunate in its churches and ministers, and 
large numbers of students attend such services regularly. They 
are encouraged to do so. Some affiliate themselves with churches 
while enrolled in the College. Many students are helpful in the 
church and its different organizations. 

4. The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. These are quartered in 
Alumni Hall on the campus and have paid secretaries. Last year 
over 85% of the young women students belonged to their associa¬ 
tion. The young men’s association is well patronized. There is 
a Catholic Club, a Luther League, and Brotherhood of St. Andrew. 


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5. Bible Classes, A large number of Bible classes are conducted 
in fraternity and club houses once each week. Members of the 
faculty and senior students serve as leaders. These classes are 
well attended. 

6. Student Pastors. Three churches now maintain student pas¬ 
tors at Ames. These men work in conjunction with their church 
and with the religious organizations on the campus. They are 
exerting a helpful influence. 

7. Student religious services, including class prayer meetings, 
which are conducted entirely by the students. 

RELATIONS BETWEEN LOWER CLASSES. 

The relations between the two lower classes in this College, con¬ 
trary to the long standing tradition of many higher educational 
institutions, have been placed upon a friendly, helpful basis. The 
idea of changing the attitude between the- two lower classes from 
antagonism to friendliness has attracted considerable attention. It 
is hoped this will become a permanent tradition at Iowa State Col¬ 
lege. Credit for this unique action must be given to the Class of 
1916. Near the close of its freshman year, in May, 1913, the fol¬ 
lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted: 

Whereas, it has long been a custom for varying degrees of antagonism 
to exist between the freshman and sophomore classes in institutions of 
learning; and, 

Whereas, this feeling of antagonism frequently has led to violence; 
and, 

Whereas, this traditional opposition between sophomores and fresh¬ 
men is rapidly dying out in leading institutions of learning, and such 
opposition has no advantage but is detrimental to the best interests of 
the institutions and the student body; and, 

Whereas, there are abundant reasons why the sophomore class should 
assist the freshman class in taking up new work in a strange institution, 
therefore, be it 

Resolved, That this Class of 1916 in the Iowa State College of Agricul¬ 
ture and Mechanic Arts hereby expresses its emphatic disapproval of the 
idea of further continuing the traditional attitude of antagonism or un¬ 
friendliness between sophomores and freshmen, and records itself as 
favoring an attitude of friendliness and helpfulness. 

We, the members of the Class of 1916, hereby pledge ourselves col¬ 
lectively and individually to use our best influence to prevent all acts of 
lawlessness or violence against members of the Class of 1917, and assert 
it to be our purpose to assist the members of the incoming class to become 
well established in their work as promptly as possible. It is our desire 
to hold friendly contests with the incoming class, such contests to be 
arranged by a joint committee; and be it further 


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Resolved, That the president of this class (1916) he instructed to ap¬ 
point a committee of not less than thirty (30) members of this class 
(1916) to be known as a Freshman Reception Committee to meet fresh¬ 
men on arrival prior to the opening of the college in September, and to 
co-operate with the Y. M. C. A. in providing for them in any way benefi¬ 
cial to their comfort. Members of said committee should be provided with 
badges and will be expected in all good faith to carry out in every possible 
way the letter and spirit of these resolutions. 

A. Earle Holmes, President, 1916. 

The members of the class faithfully lived up to their resolutions 
and the Class of 1917 appreciated the good treatment received at 
the hands of the sophomores. This class in turn adopted resolu¬ 
tions early in their freshmen year as follows: 

Whereas, the Class of 1916 has this year adopted a new policy in 
respect to the relations between sophomores and freshmen and through 
a committee has extended assistance to members of the Class of 1917; and, 
Whereas, the entire Class of 1916, the whole student body and the 
faculty have shown in every possible way their desire to assist members 
of this class to make a good start in our college work, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That this Class of 1917 hereby expresses its appreciation and 
thanks to members of the Class of 1916 and all others for the splendid 
welcome and treatment we have received, and we declare it to be our pur¬ 
pose to reciprocate whenever opportunity offers; and, be it further 

Resolved, That in harmony with action of the Class of 1916 this class 
goes on record as in favor of contests between the two classes and under 
supervision of committees duly appointed; and, be it further 

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this 
class and the secretary is hereby directed to transmit copies to the presi¬ 
dent of the Class of 1916 and to the editor of the I. S. C. Student. 

Roscoe Packer, President, 
Jeannette Knapp, Secretary. 

Class of 1917. 

Near the close of their freshman year, in March, 1914, the mem¬ 
bers of the Class of 1917 took further definite steps in the interest 
of the next incoming class by adopting the following: 

Resolved, That this class, having adopted a resolution of appreciation 
on account of the attitude of the Class of 1916 toward us, and having 
expressed ourselves as desiring to reciprocate, the president of the class 
is hereby authorized to appoint a committee of thirty-five (35) to act 
as a Reception Committee to members of the Class of 1918, and to carry 
out in good spirit the custom which is coming to be established at Iowa 
State College; namely: an attitude of friendliness and helpfulness between 
sophomores and freshmen instead of an attitude of antagonism, as has 
long been the rule in institutions of higher learning. 

E. N. McDonnell, President, 1917. 


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The committee authorized by the resolution sent a cordial letter 
to each member of the new class besides otherwise carrying out the 
provisions of the class action. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

It is worthy of note that the student body has raised funds for 
especially worthy purposes on several occasions. By popular con¬ 
tribution they sent an old soldier to the reunion at Gettysburg. 
A fund was raised for the flood sufferers in Ohio. 

WOMEN STUDENTS. 

Last year there were 514 young women students. They are quar¬ 
tered in Margaret Hall, in a few sorority houses and in numerous 
other houses accommodating from 18 to 25 and under the super¬ 
vision of the College. A chaperon resides in each house. Every 
effort is made to safeguard the health and protect the young women 
and promote their educational interests. The new women’s dormi¬ 
tory is expected to accommodate about 100 young women and 
to be ready for occupancy after the first of January, 1915. 

OCCUPATION OF GRADUATES. 

Graduates from technical courses usually follow the line of work 
for which they have prepared themselves. A chief reason for this 
is that technical courses are hard and students do not enter them 
unless they really want to make use of the instruction. Often it 
has been said that college courses in agriculture educate young men 
away from the farm. Tim records show the contrary. Dean Cur¬ 
tiss has collected data regarding the occupation of 579 alumni from 
the Division of Agriculture from 1872 to 1913. Only 64 of these 
are not connected with agriculture. The remainder are connected 
with agriculture. For the five years, 1909 to 1913, data have been 
tabulated from 271 agricultural alumni whose employment is 
known. All but eleven of these are connected with agriculture. 
The largest group is engaged in farming, some are in special agri¬ 
cultural lines such as dairying or agricultural journalism. About 
one-third are teaching agriculture and a few are in agricultural 
experiment station work. 

Professor Pew has collected data from all the 97 graduates from 
the Animal Husbandry course in 1910, 1911, and 1912, with the 
following interesting findings: 

78 are farmers. 

8 are college instructors and experiment station workers. 

6 are teachers of agriculture in high schools. 


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37 


2 are in agricultural journalism. 

2 are salesmen. 

1 is the expert of the Iowa Beef Producers Association. 

We have not heard the criticism that engineering and veterinary 
students fail to follow the lines for which they are trained. The 
fact is that graduates from these divisions also are making good 
in their chosen work in all parts of the State. Naturally some 
graduates locate in other states. Every State institution has this 
experience, and it should be remembered that Iowa receives benefits 
from institutions in other states through probably more college 
graduates than she sends into other states. 

The Faculty Appointment Committee reports having helped, in 
1913-14, 58 graduates to secure teaching positions. Of these, 35 
are in Home Economics positions; 16 are in Agriculture; 4 are in 
Science; and 3 are in supervisory positions. Thirty-eight of the 
positions are in Iowa. Minnesota took nine because of her ad¬ 
vanced position in reference to vocational training, which is ac¬ 
companied by good teachers’ salaries. The salaries of the 58 
appointments range from $70 to $150 per month. 

The young men who take the two year course in agriculture 
almost always return to the farm. Many of them are carrying on 
large and important farm operations in the State. 

NAMES OF GRADUATES. 

The names of those receiving degrees and certificates during the 
biennium are as follows: 


Graduates January 1, 1913. 
Degree—Bachelor of Science in Agronomy. 


Hugo Jordan Guerra 
Paul Clifford Taff 


D. Harold Zentmire 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Animal Husbandry. 


Winthrop Kellogg Dyer 
Guy E. Harmon 
Rudolph H. Hicken 


Robert C. McChord 
James R. VanDeventer 
Herbert Hopkins Whitehead 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Home Economics. 


Caroline Mary Dean 


Carrie Elinor Lake 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. 


Edward C. Cutler 
Leland R. Miner 


Carl Oscar Negaard 


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Degree—Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. 

Lawrence E. Corray William Edward Jones 

Adolph Fick Harry Alfred Kerr 

Ralph Welles Gaylord 

Degree—Bachelor of Science. 

Howard Sheldon Coe 


Graduates June, 1913. 


Degree—Master of Science in Animal Husbandry. 

Eric N. Boland Frank B. Hills 

Degree—Master of Science in Soils. 

L. W. Forman 

Master of Science in Dairying. 

Kenneth G. MacKay 
Master of Science in Horticulture. 

Frank W. Allen 
Master of Science. 

William O. Ellis 
Degree—Civil Engineer. 

William 0. Price 
G. H. Mack 

Degree—Engineer of Mines. 

Herbert E. Robinson 
Degree—Electrical Engineer. 

Charles A. Hobein 


W. E. Buell 
H. J. Brunnier 


Degree—Bachelor of Science m Agronomy. 


Donald A. Hunt 
Burton Joseph 
Ralph Linton Helm 
Paul Bird 
Randall M. Tuttle 
Joseph Miles Rees 
Lynn W. Osborn 
Ben H. Walker 

Degree—Bachelor of Science i 


Martin E. Sar 
Lumir J. Vondracek 
Milton O. Smith 
Edwin Charles Harte 
Eric Eyre Eastman 
Virgill Clyde Miller 
Charles S. Dorchester 
Everett C. Watts 

Dairying. 


Lloyd Paul Shaffer 
Ami Lewis Allen 
James Gray Watson 
George J. Miller 
William Douglas Meltzer 
James A. Clutter 


Roy Montgomery Day 
Morton B. Newburger 
Harold William McElroy 
Earl Brunson Bisbee 
Lessing B. Newburger 
J. Henry Seba 


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Degree—Bachelor of Science in Animal Husbandry. 


Max Merwyn Allender 

Paul Allen Johnson 

Howard Clinton Barker 

Oral Harry Joy 

Daniel Thomas Batchelder 

Paul Frank Kriethe 

Harry John Boyts 

Forrest Wilkins McBride 

Oran Russell Brasted 

Roy Wilson McDonald 

Charles Anson Burge 

Harry A. McMichael 

Charles Lloyd Burlingham 

Harry Ward Milligan 

Lloyd Elliot Burnett 

Harry M. Nordstrum 

Clyde Burdette Campbell 

Edward Sanford Olson 

Morris Earl Cochran 

Roscoe C. Pollock 

Roy Emery Coverdale 

Bryce Alfonzo Quint 

Thomas Farmer Crocker 

John William Schwab 

Sherman Dickinson 

A. Jay Terrall 

Eleazer Robert Divine 

Bruce R. Vale 

Valente F. Dolcini 

Ralph Hammond Van Keuren 

David Earl Elijah 

Edward Vaughn 

Howard Claude Ferguson 

Harry Eugene Ward 

Ray Gatewood 

Jerub Harry Warner 

Lester Sidney Gillette 

Edward Arthur Weyrauch 

Earl S. Girton 

Charles E. Wheatley 

Joseph B. Gratiot 

Dick Grady Whitaker 

Fred Eugene Hartnell 

Foster W. Wilson 

Earl Hilden Johnson 

Leslie 0. Wise 

Isaac B. Johnson 

Burton Henry Wormley 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in 

Horticulture. 

Jacob Peter Anderson 

Clyde F. Cochran 

Manly Secor 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in 

Forestry. 

Hal Beck Clark 

Edwin H. Steffen 

Rudolph Louis Hensel 

Lyle Ford Watts 

Horace Ives Ringheim 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in 

Agricultural Engineering. 

William Wallace Ashby 

Manly Alexander Raymond 

James Arentson 

Kelley 

Ralph Upshaw Blasingame 

James Byron Kelley 

Carl Richard Hoff 

Ralph T. Vincent 

James C. Olsen 

Wesley W. Warsaw 

Donald S. Wormley 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in 

Agricultural Education. 

Shirley Marker Hackett 

Arthur Floyd Scott 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Science and Agriculture. 


Luke J. Baxter 


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Degree—Bachelor of Science in Home Economics. 


Willa Tirrill Richardson 
Helen D. Gage 
Faith Fenton 

Iva Adeline Beatrice Fuchs 

Marie Hanson 

Georgena Hawks 

Edna May Arthur 

Lilia M. Voss 

Edna E. Prine 

Blanche Hopkins 

Edna Tong 

Callie May Bliss 


Gladys Bonner 
Lena Fay Thompson 
Lila Wygle 
Jennie F. Mitchell 
Nellie R. Patterson 
Helen White 
Leila Huebsch 
Forrest Fern Rush 
Eunice Ethel Woody 
Miriam Hood Wills 
Clara Hanson 
Zelma Zentmire 


Degree—Doctor of Veterinary 
Forest Ward Cairy 
Roy Glenden Ross 
Harry W. Hall 
Royal F. Nordstrum 
Chris E. Juhl 
Arthur C. Swanson 
David B. Wilson 
William Edward Macklin 
Charles Dobbs Rice 
Frank V. Helsel 
Percy Lester Ellis 


Ralph J. Laird 
Bernard L. Doyle 
Herman H. Jonker 
Carl Francis Neis 
Harold Eugene Johnston 
Robert Gorden Moore 
Harry C. Paine 
Glenn Darbyshire 
Lewis F. Doty 
Nathaniel S. Nutty 
Charles Purl Wilson 


Medicine. 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. 


Harry Prentice Allstrand 
Myton M. Bonsteel 
Benjamin Jones Egert 
Clifford H. Glaze 
Virgil W. Hale 
Frank Alois Hill 
Reuben Kuempel 
Ichabod A. Lawton 
Robert Nathaniel McKitterick 
S. Oscar Nelson 


Raymond B. Reis 
Raymond R. Rogers 
Cornelius G. Sauerberg 
Ferdinand Edward Schmidt 
James K. Shallenburger 
Fred E. Triggs 
Leon Joseph Wells 
Fred T. Whiting 
Floyd Everett Worley 
G. Edward Wray 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. 


Herbert Miller 
J. Raymond Johnston. 
Harvey B. Armour 
Merle Cadwell Tyler 
William F. Cochrane 
Curtiss D. Weller 
Jacob Butler Sullivan 
Boyd H. Tong 
Perry Judson Preston 
John Henry Schwertley 
Everett Harrold Frazier 


Wayne Wilson 
Ivan Emery Trottnow 
William Neil Adams 
Frank Alexander Mosher 
Leo C. Vader 
Adelbert Estey Wallace 
John A. Illeman 
John Richard Hamm 
W. Earl Barker 
Levi Sabin Gates 
Harry Clyde Hunter 


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Degree—Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering—Continued. 


Joseph Pickus 
Mark 0. Chamberlain 
Rudolph Martin Evans 
Edwin Monroe Westbrook 
Orville W. Crowley 


Harry M. House 
Amos Melberg 
David Eugene Adams 
Charles Capper 
Homer X. White 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. 


Seth A. Brown 
Paul Spencer Clapp 
Glenn L. Conlee 
Harold E. Conlee 
Arthur E. Hartung 
Denver Wayne Hoot 
Albert Lynn Hopkins 
Paul R. Howland 
Claron B. Hutchison 


Don H. Kilby 
Everett Flint Knight 
Claude H. Mott 
Frank Roberson 
Joseph James Shoemaker 
Earle R. Thornburg 
Joseph N. Walton 
Harry F. Good 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering. 

Lyle Alden Butler Arthur Ware Hess 

Alva Jesse Crawford Raymond Layton Hurst 

Clfford King Clark 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Ceramics. 

Hans Christian Pfund 
Degree—Bachelor of Science. 


Myrtle McDonald 
Elizabeth McKim 
Ruby Moss Lynch 
Anna Marie Wolfe 
Ruby H. Hopkins 
Mildred Cady Walls 


Edward Sawtelle Welles 
Clyde Houghton Lissenden 
Leona Peshak 
William R. Tydeman 
Elizabeth Deacon 
Mary Georgeanna Miller 


Graduates February 6, 1914. 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Agronomy. 

Harlan W. Johnson Poiicarpo Garza 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Animal Husbandry. 

J. Fernando Grass Paul F. McLean 

Paul E. Levson 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Forestry. 

J. Clifford Sterret 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Horticulture. 

Virgil P. Johnson 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. 

Leroy D. Snyder 
Degree—Bachelor of Science. 

Iva B. Fuchs 


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Graduates June, 1914. 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education. 

Lewis K. Bennett Ross Paul White 

Milton Elwood Scandrett 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering. 


Edgar V. Collins 
George Le Roy Costigan 
Fred. C. Fenton 
Harry Frank Good 
Clyde I. Griffith 
Arthur Henry Hoffman 
Milton H. Hoffman 
George W. Iverson 


William G. Kaiser 
Emil W. Lehmann 
Charles A. Norman 
Frank Stuart Rodger 
Arthur W. Schultz 
Claude Kedzie Shedd 
Earl George Welch 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Agronomy. 


Leon Ensworth Aldrich 
Thomas Harold Benton 
George Myron Clark 
Ross L. Clark 
Edgar V. Collins 
Ezequiel E. Dominguez 
William Elmer Frudden 
Dolliver W. Graham 


Hans Peter Hanson 
Benjamin C. Helmick 
Thomas David McClenahan 
Earl S. Miles 
Marion Elias Olson 
Don Warren Pittman 
Harold Wilcox Reid 
Harold Shaw Robilliard 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Animal Husbandry. 


Joe Bone 

Paul Bradley 

William Brand 

William H. Brennan 

Errett Brownlie Calderwood 

Howard Harmon Camburn 

Leslie M. Carl 

Harry W. Cave 

Dean Holmes Corlette 

Joseph Clayton Cort 

Glen Darbyshire 

Henry Rankin Duncan 

Rowan Wayne Dysart 

Glenn A. Ellis 

Frank Vail Farr 

Fred L. French 

Howell E. Gholson 

Fred R. Glassburner 

Luis S. Gonzalez 

Ross McKinney Gridley 

Ward Vladimir Gousseff 

C. Wayne Hammans 

Earl S. Haseltine 


Carlos V. Hill 
Hugh C. Hostetter 
Arthur Robert Karr 
Llewellyn W. Kube 
Melvin Cornelius Larson 
Ryle S. McKee 
Thomas Bonar McKee 
Lloyd Raymond Marchant 
Byron Gilman Moad 
Ora B. Moore 
Roy James Murray 
Bernard Floyd Myers 
James Edgar Norton 
Elmer M. Peterson 
Wallace W. Reynolds 
Ola Evertt Rider 
Luman P. Sewell 
A. Lee Smith 
Robert Nelson Spencer 
Clay William Stafford 
Herman Steen 
Harold E. Stone 
Ralph J. Sunderlin 


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Degree—Bachelor of Science and Animal Husbandry—Continued. 

Aubrey J. Swift John Higgins Warburton 

Theron A. Thornburg E. Harry Watsabaugh 

Orville C. Ufford Russell Webb 

Harry J. Venning Edwin C. Wetherbee 

Harley Walker 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. 

Edwin John Hull Lidmil Leo Palda 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. 


Earl Cap el 

Allen Howard Connolly 
Frank D’Autremont 
William Henry De Butts 
William Livingstone Fahey 
Charles M. Fisher 
Field Bradford Forbes 
Joseph A. Goodbarn 
Liono Leslie Grand Pre 
Ole G. Herm 
Robert S. Johnson 
Robert Tillman Johnson 


Vernon S. Lawrence 
Frederick John Longer 
Lisle Nicholson 
Henry M. Noel 
Lee S. Packman 
Frank D. Pearce 
Donald De Witt Rait 
William Alfred Reeves 
Paul Bilsborough Reis 
Vernon Harrison Roller 
Fred Sarvis 
Russell A. Smith 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Dairying. 


Fayette Clifton Barney 
Arthur F. Carlson 
Willoughby A. Lee 
Hugh M. Linn 
John Albert Luithly, Jr. 


Guy Lee Noble 
Harry E. Ritter 
Edward J. Shima 
Verner H. Stork 
Thomas Henry Wright, Jr. 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. 


Edgar M. Bouton 
John Henry Brumhall 
Guy Chatburn 
Harry K. Davis 
Glenn Gladstone Hoskins 
William John Hudson 
Lauren Everett Hulse 
Charles Neff Hutchinson 
Charles Edward Ide 
Carl Voigt Kriechbaum 


Irving Eugene Loveland 
Edgar Eugene Martin 
Robert Horace Milner 
Earle Glenn Nichols 
James Bruce Patterson 
Harry B. Porter 
David Roy Scott 
George R. Shaw 
Lloyd G. Swanson 
Claire H. Webster 


Degree—Bachelor of Science in Forestry. 

Willard Claire Hassel 

Ralph W. Hayes 

William Max Nagel 

Robert G. Schreck L" 


Serrin S. Van Boskirk 
Ernest T. Wolf 
Ray M. Wolven 


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Degree—Bachelor of Science in Home Economics. 


Alice Bortine Anderson 

Frances Laffer 

Jessie Campbell 

Marjorie Townsend McIntosh 

Ruth Cessna 

Grace Mae Martfeld 

Grace Marie Conlon 

Margaret Niles 

Elsie Myrtle Corwin 

Mary Margaret Nordstrom 

Charlotte Dryden 

Mabel Clare Parsons 

Helen Margaret Flint 

Mabel C. Peters 

Lura Mae Fogleman 

lima G. Pitts 

Helen Dean Frink 

Beth Pryor 

Dorothy May Gallivan 

Emma Reno 

Edna Murray Garvin 

Mildred Reynolds 

Maude Lillian Guthrie 

Clara Irene Shinkle 

Irene E. Hagglund 

Ellen Skegg 

Eleanor Marie Hallock 

May Blanche Statler 

Florence Jensen 

Maisie Gail Stephenson 

Laura Lucinda Jones 

Lora Kristine Thompson 

Kate Esther Kerr 

Mary Elizabeth Vaughn 

Lucy Kimball 

Ruth Vincent 

Mabel Fay Kingsbury 

Helen Ames Wentworth 

Mayme Kirkpatrick 

Jessie Witmer 

Marian Hermine Knapp 

Maude Campbell 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Horticulture. 

Wayne W. Downing 

Frank Drew Millar 

Ellis L. Kirkpatrick 

Edward Esher Smith 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. 

Donald Shearon Barry 

Paul V. Miller 

Elmer H. Borg 

Harry J. Renken 

Earl F. Borg 

Ralph Ewing Reuling 

Earl F. Bragg 

Raymond A. Schreiber 

Robert C. Campbell 

Herbert Sigfrid Selindh 

Herbert Edwin Freund 

Carl Wesley Stookey 

Charles Henry Hartnell 

Harlan Edward Tracy 

William John Hudson 

Morris B. Wilder 

George Simon Lafrentz 

Walter Garfield Madison 

J. Ora Winchell 

Degree—Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering. 

Elmer August Almquist 

Emil James Kratoska 

George Thomas Wright 

Degree—Bachelor of Science. 

George W. Baker 

Madge Elliott 

Berenice Lillian Blake 

Annie Elizabeth Farnum 

Bernice Lucian Bradford 

Frances D. George 

Dorothy Childs Cross 

Merrill Milo Manning 

Cleo Grace Day 

Helen Tabitha Osier 

Maude M. Donohue 

Blythe Viola Victoria Poage 


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Degree—Bachelor of Science in 
Clayton L. Crider 
Ecson Lee Finley 
Harry A. Gamrath 
Clifford Meron Gilchrist 
Charles Henry Haggard 
Howard C. Johnson 
Thomas Seeter Leith 
Harry Winter Paxton 


Veterinary Medicine. 

Crittenden Ross 
Karl William Schalk 
Fred W. Shinn 
Mark Speaker 
Mulford Dell Studehaker 
Rollin Mathias Thomas 
Irl Donaker Wilson 
Logan Alexander White 


Degree—Master of Science in Agriculture. 
Kenneth Cole Ikeler 


Degree—Civil Engineer. 

Charles William Okey 
William Japhia Schlick 
Wilbur M. Wilson 
Louis D. Kelsey 
Wilbur L. Fulton 

Degree—Mechanical Engineer. 
Frank S. Vincent 
Jesse Greenleaf Hummel 
Oscar Anton Olson 

Degree—Chemical Engineer. 

Edward N. Eaton 
Degree—Electrical Engineer. 

Wilson Lee Campbell 
Degree—Agricultural Engineer. 

Leon Wilson Chase 
Degree—Doctor of Science. 
George L. McKay 


Ray Floyd Weirick 
Tansey Radford Agg 
Roy Winchester Crum 
Ralph Z. Kirkpatrick 
Charles Sabin Nichols 

George G. Dana 
Peter M. King 


Morris E. Packman 


James Wilson 


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The following table shows the number of degrees granted in the 
different courses during each year of the biennium, and total 
number of degrees granted up to June 30, 1914: 

Summary of Graduates. 




Grand Total 




to June 


1912-13 

1913-14 

30,1914 

Number of first degrees granted. 

250 

258 

3,401 

Present Courses 




Agricultural Education . 

2 

3 

5 

Agricultural Engineering . 

10 

15 

31 

Agronomy . 

19 

18 

127 

Animal Husbandry . 

54 

58 

334 

Ceramics . 

1 

0 

5 

Chemical Engineering. 

0 

2 

2 

Civil Engineering. 

37 

25 

555 

Dairying. 

12 

10 

66 

Electrical Engineering. 

17 

20 

380 

Home Economics .. 

26 

42 

128 

Forestry . 

0 

8 

8 

Horticulture and Forestry. 

8 

0 

51 

Horticulture . 

0 

5 

5 

Industrial Chemistry . 

0 

0 

2 

Industrial Science . 

13 

14 

508 

Mechanical Engineering . 

23 

19 

322 

Mining Engineering. 

5 

3 

53. 

Science and Agriculture. 

1 

0 

3 

Veterinary Medicine . 

22 

16 

291 

Courses Discontinued 




Agricultural Course, leading to Degree 




B. S., 1872-1880. 



102 

Agricultural Course, leading to Degree 




B. S. A., 1883-1888 and 1894-1904. 



86 

Science and Agriculture Course, leading 




to Degree B. S., 1889-1890 and 1909-1911 



47 

General Science Course for Ladies, 




1872-1880 and 1904 . 



48 

General and Domestic Science Course, 




leading to Degree of B. S., 1887-1899.. 



93 

General and Domestic Science Course, 




leading to Degree of B. Ph., 1899-1900. 



21 

General and Domestic Science Course, 




leading to Degree of B. S., 1901-1908... 



78 

Agronomy Course, leading to Degree B. 




Ag., 1891-1898 . 



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Higher Degrees— 

Master of Science in Agriculture. 0 

Master of Science. 1 

Other Master Degrees. 5 

Engineers . 6 

Honorary Degrees . 0 

Advanced Degrees in Veterinary Medi¬ 
cine . 0 


1 56 

0 42 

0 16 

19 81 

2 14 


0 4 


THE TEACHING STAFF. 

The College faculty is composed of the president, full professors 
and associate professors. It is the legislative body of the institu¬ 
tion. Each division has its faculty, which is the legislative body 
tor that division. All faculty actions are within lines established 
by the Board of Education or are subject to approval by the Board. 

The following changes in the personnel of the staff occurred dur¬ 
ing the biennium: 

RESIGNATIONS. 

Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors: 

Professor A. V. Storm, Head of the Agricultural Education Department, 
resigned to accept a position with the University of Minnesota, Professor 

B. H. Hibbard, Head of the Department of Economics, resigned to accept a 
position with the University of Wisconsin. Associate Professor John 
Piper Watson, Director of Physical Training, resigned to accept a posi¬ 
tion with the State University of Iowa. Assistant Professor A. S. Thomp¬ 
son and Mrs. A. S. Thompson resigned as Director and Vice-Director of 
the Music Department, respectively, to accept similar positions elsewhere. 
Associate Professor E. N. Wentworth of the Animal Husbandry Depart¬ 
ment resigned to accept a position on the editorial staff of the Breeders’ 
Gazette. Professor A. MacMurray, Head of the Public Speaking Depart¬ 
ment, resigned to accept a similar position with the University of Kansas. 
Other resignations were as follows: Assistant Professor C. 0. Alexander 
of the Agricultural Engineering Department; Assistant Professor Nelson 

C. Brown of the Forestry Department; Associate Professor Lola A. Place¬ 
way of the Chemistry Department; Associate Professor A. H. Hoffman of 
the Physics Department; Assistant Professor Arden R. Johnson of the 
Chemistry Department; Assistant Professor Walter Henry Cooper of the 
Dairy Department; Professor Willard John Kennedy of the Animal Hus¬ 
bandry Department transferred to the Agricultural Extension Department 
as Temporary Director, later resigned. 

DEATHS. 

There was one death in the instructing staff. Mr. Clyde F. Cornwall, 
who held a teaching fellowship in the Department of Bacteriolgy, died 
January 5, 1914, from heart failure following too strenuous physical exer¬ 
cise. 








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LEAVES OF ABSENCE. 

Professor A. A. Bennett, Head of the Department of Chemistry, who 
served until the close of the college year 1912-13, following a service of 
twenty-eight years in this College and four years additional of college 
teaching, was given leave of absence with part salary for one year and 
without salary thereafter. During four years of the period at Ames he 
held the position of Professor of both Chemistry and Physics. Professor 
Bennett has rendered valuable service to the College and to the State. 

Assistant Professor Ward M. Jones was granted leave of absence for 
one year without salary so that he might take up the work of Secretary 
of the Alumni Association. Associate Professor C. C. Fowler of the 
Chemistry Department was granted leave of absence for one year to enable 
him to complete his graduate work for the doctor’s degree. Associate 
Professor I. A. Williams of the Mining Engineering Department was 
granted leave of absence for one year from September 1, 1912. Miss Jessie 
Mildred MacLean is absent on account of sickness. 

APPOINTMENTS. 

Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors: 

Honorable James Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Agriculture. M. S. A., 
Iowa State College, 1907; LL. D., University of Wisconsin, 1904; 
LL. D., University of Edinburgh, 1913; D. Sc., Iowa State College, 
1913; Secretary, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1896 to 1912. 
George Melvin Turpin, Professor of Poultry Husbandry. B. S. in Agr., 
Utah Agricultural College, 1909. 

Guy Mitchel Wilson, Professor of Agricultural Education and Director of 
the Summer Session. A. B., Indiana University, 1900; M. A., 1908. 
Allen H. Kimball, Associate Professor of Structure Design, in charge of 
Department. B. L., University of California, 1910; B. S., Massachu¬ 
setts Institute of Technology, 1912; M. S., 1913. 

H. B. Munger, Professor of Farm Management. B. S., Cornell University, 
1912. 

Jaffrey C. Harris, Associate Professor of Music and Head of Department. 
A. B., Cornell University. 

Amos Peaslee Potts, Associate Professor of Ceramics in the Mining Engi¬ 
neering Department. Ceramic Engineer, Ohio State University, 1912. 
George Chester Morbeck, Assistant Professor of Forestry. B. S. in For¬ 
estry, Michigan Agricultural. College, 1904. 

Ernest Muchmore Mervine, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineer¬ 
ing. M. E., Lehigh University, 1909. 

Charles Byron Williams, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics 
in the Department of Economics and Social Science. A. B., University 
of Chicago, 1900. 

George Ernest Hesse, Assistant Professor of English. B. A., Ohio State 
University, 1910; A. M., Columbia University, 1912. 

George Henry Von Tungeln, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology in 
the Department of Economics and Social Science. Ph. B., Central 
Wesleyan College, 1909; M. A., Northwestern University, 1910. 


THE TEACHING STAFF 


49 


Arthur William Rudnick, Assistant Professor of Dairying. B. S., Iowa 
State College, 1910. 

George Waddel Snedeoar, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. B. S., Uni¬ 
versity of Alabama, 1905; M. A., University of Michigan, 1912. 

Louis Agassiz Test, Associate Professor of Chemistry. B. M. E., Purdue 
University, 1894; A. C., 1896; Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1907. 

John Anderson Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. B. Sc., Ohio 
State University, 1903; Ph. D., Cornell University, 1909. 

Raemer R. Renshaw, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. B. S., University 
of Oregon, 1902; M. S., 1903; Ph. D., Columbia University, 1907. 

T. Radford Agg, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. B. S. in E. E., 
Iowa State College, 1905. 

Harrison B. Kinney, Assistant Professor of Soils. B. Sc., Drake Uni¬ 
versity, 1911. 

George Arthur Chaney, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. M. S., High¬ 
land Park College, 1906; M. A., University of Wisconsin, 1910. 

Ned A. Merriam, Assistant Professor in Physical Training. 

Henry William Vaughan, Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry. B. Sc. 
in Agr., Ohio State University, 1908; M. Sc. in Agr., 1909. 

Clyde McKee, Assistant Professor of Farm Crops. B. S. in Agr., Kansas 
State Agricultural College, 1910. 

Sidney Longman Galpin, Assistant Professor of Geology in the Depart¬ 
ment of Mining Engineering and Geology. A. B., Western Reserve 
University, 1907; A. M., Cornell University, 1910; Ph. D., 1912. 

Arthur Tabor Jones, Assistant Professor of Physics. B. S., University of 
Chicago, 1899; Ph. D., Clark University, 1913. 

Rudolph Ray Bolton, Assistant Professor of Practice and Diagnosis in the 
Division of Veterinary Medicine. A. B., Ohio University, 1909; D. V. M., 
Cornell University, 1912. 

Arden Richard Johnson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. B. S., Chem. 
Eng., University of Wisconsin, 1906; M. S., 1908; Ph. D., 1911. 

Orren Lloyd Jones, Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry. B. S., Uni¬ 
versity of Wisconsin, 1908; M. S., 1911; Ph. D., 1913. 

Grace Schermerhorn, Assistant Professor in charge of Practice Teaching 
in Home Economics in the Agricultural Education Department. B. S., 
Columbia University, 1912. 

PROMOTIONS. 

Vice-President , Deans, Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant 

Professors in Collegiate Work: 

Edgar Williams Stanton appointed as Vice-President of the College. (In 
addition to other duties.) 

Catherine J. MacKay from Professor of Home Economics to Acting Dean 
of the Division of Home Economics. 

Robert Earle Buchanan appointed as Acting Dean of the Division of 
Industrial Science. (In addition to other duties.) 

William Wallace Dimock appointed as Vice-Dean of the Veterinary Divi¬ 
sion. (In addition to other duties.) 


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William Harper Pew from Associate Professor to Professor of Animal 
Husbandry and Head of Department. 

Winfred Forrest Coover from Associate Professor to Professor of Chem¬ 
istry. 

John Edward Brindley from Associate Professor to Professor of Eco¬ 
nomics. 

Harold Edward Bemis from Associate Professor to Professor of Veterinary 
Surgery and Obstetrics. 

Howard Sylvester Murphey from Associate Professor to Professor of Vet¬ 
erinary Anatomy and Histology. 

John Edward Kirkham from Associate Professor to Professor of Struc¬ 
tural Engineering in the Civil Engineering Department. 

Everett Edgar King from Associate Professor to Professor of Railway 
Engineering in the Civil Engineering Department. 

Gilmour Beyers MacDonald from Associate Professor to Professor of 
Forestry. 

Maria M. Roberts from Associate Professor of Mathematics to Professor 
of Mathematics. 

Clyde Williams from Athletic Coach to Professor of Physical Training. 

Percy Edward Brown from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Soil Bacteriology. 

Harold Criswell Bartholomew from Assistant Professor to Associate Pro¬ 
fessor of Electrical Engineering. 

Henry Dale Bergman from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology. 

Julia Trueman Colpitts from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor 
of Mathematics. 

Morris Irwin Evinger from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Civil Engineering. 

Evan F. Ferrin from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Ani¬ 
mal Husbandry. 

Chester Charles Fowler from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor 
of Chemistry. 

George Andrew Gabriel from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Industrial Chemistry. 

Joseph Edward Guthrie from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor 
of Zoology. 

Andrew R. Hackett from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Physical Training. 

Bernard W. Hammer from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Dairying. 

Ward Murray Jones from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Mathematics. 

John Nathan Martin from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Botany. 

Ruth E. Michaels from Instructor to Associate Professor of Home Eco¬ 
nomics. 

Charles Murray from Instructor to Associate Professor of Veterinary 
Pathology and Bacteriology. 


THE TEACHING STAFF 


51 


Roy Hiram Porter from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Mechanical Engineering. 

Amos Peaslee Potts from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Ceramics. 

William Randolph Raymond from Assistant Professor to Associate Pro¬ 
fessor of English. 

Arthur Laurence Bakke from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Botany. 

Winifred Sarah Gettemy from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Home 
Economics. 

Bruce Magill Harrison from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Zoology. 

William Roy Hechler from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Farm 
Crops. 

John Hug from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engi¬ 
neering. 

William Kunerth from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics. 

Jesse Mildred MacLean from Instructor to Assistant Professor of English. 

Frank D. Paine from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Electrical Engi¬ 
neering. 

Herbert John Plagge from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics. 

Frank Anson Robbins from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Electrical 
Engineering. 

Ruth B. Safford from Instructor to Assistant Professor of English. 

Fredrica Yon Trice Shattuck from Instructor to Assistant Professor of 
Public Speaking. 

Phineas Stevens Shearer from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Animal 
Husbandry. 

Ross Madison Sherwood from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Poultry 
Husbandry. 

Roland Schanel Wallis from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Civil 
Engineering. 

Samuel Eugene Conybeare from Assistant to Assistant Professor of Agri¬ 
cultural Journalism. 

Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors in Sub- 

Collegiate Work: 

Jules Cunningham from Assistant Professor to Professor of Horticulture 
and Botany. 

Mark G. Thornburg from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of 
Animal Husbandry. 

Henry Louis Eichling from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Agronomy. 

Esther Lieper Cooper from Instructor to Assistant Professor of English. 

Paul Revere Lisher from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Animal 
Husbandry. 

Frederick L. Overly from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Horticul¬ 
ture and Botany. 

Mogens Rasmussen Tolstrup from Instructor to Assistant Professor of 
Dairying. 


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IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


The number and rank of teachers of all grades in collegiate 
work in the years 1912-13 and 1913-14 are indicated by the following 
tables: 

1912-13 



Agriculture_ 

1 

12 

5 

13 

8 

2 

1 

3 

Agricultural Engineering- 


1 

1 

1 

4 



1 

Engineering 

1 

6 

12 

12 

10 

1 



Home Economics . . 

1 


2 

1 

8 



Science ___ 

1 

11 

10 

21 

28 

12 

4 

2 

Veterinary Medicine_ 

1 

3 

2 

* 1 

1 

2 



Total _.— 

5 

33 

32 

49 

59 

17 

5 

6 


Standing committees of the College faculty include the follow¬ 
ing : Advanced Standings and Substitutions, Appointments, Course 
of Study, Dates of Events, Entrance Requirements and Secondary 
School Relations, Fraternities, Graduate Study, Grounds and Build¬ 
ings, Library, Literary Societies, Moral Welfare, Publicity, Public 
Health, Public Safety, Public Service, Rules, Scholarship, Student 
Accommodations, Student Social Life, Thesis, and Tuition Scholar¬ 
ships. Special committees are appointed as occasion requires. Stu¬ 
dent co-operative members, selected by the different classes, are 
associated with the faculty committees on Grounds and Buildings, 
Moral Welfare, Publicity, Public Health, Public Safety, and Pub¬ 
lic Service. 




























































THE TEACHING STAFF 


53 


It is an unfortunate fact that many of the teachers in this Col¬ 
lege are much overworked. In the year 1912-13 the situation in 
three departments in the Division of Science, as reported by the 
Dean of the Division, was as follows: 


Department 

Enrollment 

1912-13 

Number of 

I instructors 

Number of 

students per 

instructor 

Maximum No. 

each instructor 

can handle to 

advantage 

Number of 

instructors 

required 

English _ 

926 

9 

103 

60 

15 

Chemistry _ _ 

1,220 

144 

84 

50 

24 

Mathematics _ _ _ __ _ 

677 

8 

85 

60 

11 


Remarks: Classes in English recite two and 1 three hours per week. Classes in 
Chemistry recite two and three hours per week, but have in addition a large amount 
of laboratory work. Classes in Mathematics recite three and five hours per week. 


In the year of 1913-14 the head of the Physics Department sub¬ 
mitted data which showed the excessive amount of work required 
of teachers in his department. Data were shown from twenty-one 
leading universities and colleges in the United States. The aver¬ 
age showed that one instructor cared for 42.5 students or 313 
credit hours. At this college the average instructor in the Physics 
Department cared for 108 students or 532 student credit hours. It 
is needless to pretend that we can give as good work as our stu¬ 
dents should enjoy when members of the teaching staff are over¬ 
loaded as these figures indicate. 

In numerous departments at the beginning of the last biennium 
it seemed that the teachers were doing as much work as could be 
fairly expected of them but they have cheerfully and generously 
taken on additional numbers of students, and this largely has made 
it possible for the institution to show an increased attendance in 
two years of nearly 700. I have no hesitation in saying that at 
many other institutions a large part of these students would have 
been turned away with the statement that there were not enough 
teachers to instruct them. 


SALARIES. 

The salaries of members of our faculty and investigating staff 
were increased at the beginning of the year 1913-14 by reason 
of the increased appropriations made by the last General As- 

















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IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


sembly, but in many cases the salaries are yet below what they 
should be. The following is a comparison with the corresponding 
branches of work in the University of Illinois: 

University of Illinois. 



Agriculture 

Engineering 

Liberal Arts 
and Science 

Law 

Number 

>> 

(H 

a 

"3 

CO 

Number 

Salary 

Number 

Salary 

Number 

Salary 

Professor _ 

15 

$ 3,713 

14 

$ 3,803 

38 

$ 3,330 

6 

$ 3,433 

ARfinfiint.fi Prnfp.fisnT 



1 

3,000 

8 

2,825 



Assistant Professor_ 

14 

2,628 

19 

2,286 

28 

2,378 



A 

33 

1,866 

14 

1,771 

19 

1,684 



TnHt.mpt.nr 

28 

1,453 

49 

1,456 

53 

1,351 



Assistant 

29 

1,107 

13 

1,034 

21 

1,010 









Total _ 

119 


110 


167 


6 



Iowa State College. 

(For the Year 1914-1915.) 



Agriculture 

Engineering 

Science 

Veterinary 

Medicine 

Number 

Salary 

Number 

Salary 

Number 

- 

Salary 

— 

Number 

Salary | 

Professor _ 

16 

$ 2,735 

6 

$ 2,817 

10 

$ 2,690 

4 

$ 2,375 

Associate Professor - 

13 

1,886 

13 

2,016 

17 

1,744 

2 

1,950 

Assistant Professor- 

11 

1,668 

10 

1,430 

14 

1,407 

1 

1,800 

Tnstmptnr 

21 

1,297 

13 

1,039 

37 

1,067 



Assistant 

1 

1,000 


0 

883 

2 

1,200 








Total 

62 


42 


84 


9 












It will be seen that the average difference in leading positions of 
corresponding rank is about $1,000 per year in favor of the teachers 
in Illinois. 


































































THE TEACHING STAFF 


55 


In this College it frequently happens that a graduate student 
secures a position at a better salary than the instructors who taught 
this student themselves receive. 

It would be an advantage if we could establish minimum salaries 
for different grades of teaching service as follows: Full professors, 
$2,750; associate professors, $2,250; assistant professors, $1,600; in¬ 
structors, $1,000; assistants, $800. 

Low salaries are compensated for to a very small degree by a 
policy of allowing traveling expenses for members of the faculty 
when attending scientific meetings which they may do to the adv- 
vantage of the college. These trips are in addition to necessary offi¬ 
cial trips, such as to investigate buildings or educational policies 
elsewhere or to accompany classes of students on educational trips. 
The following statement shows the amounts expended in the last 
College year for traveling expenses for different purposes outside 
of extension work, experiment station work, and hog cholera serum 


work. 

To accompany classes.$ 706.70 

For interviews with candidates. 450.49 

To buy live stock and supplies. 121.12 

To attend scientific meetings, etc. 2,751.77 

To study methods at other colleges. 423.52 

Part compensation for services. 61.37 

Buildings inspections and to consult architect. 63.72 

International Live Stock Exposition and Fairs. 342.99 

Miscellaneous . 334.17 


Total .$5,255.85 


It will be noted that the amount expended on account of attend¬ 
ing scientific meetings, etc., is only $2,751.77 or an average of less 
than $14 per teacher. It is believed that this small amount gives 
more satisfaction to the faculty and larger returns to the State as 
it is being used than if it were added to the salary payments. 

The American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experi¬ 
ment Stations has approved a plan, which it is hoped may be 
worked out with the co-operation of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, whereby members of agricultural faculties who are 
entitled to sabbatical leave of absence may combine this absence 
with a study along their special line in some foreign country for a 
period from a few months to a year. Under this plan the college 
would continue to pay a part or all of the salary during the absence 
and the Federal government would pay expenses and any appropri 













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IQWA STATE COLLEGE 


ate supplementary salary. It is believed that such trips would 
prove of great benefit to the institutions represented and they 
would do much to strengthen the spirit of loyalty on the part of 
the faculty. 

RETIRING ALLOWANCES. 

The Legislature of Iowa has taken the necessary steps for a 
legislature to secure pension benefits from the Carnegie Founda¬ 
tion. The Board of Education has done its part. But pen¬ 
sions are not as yet provided. Much might be said upon this sub¬ 
ject. Criticism has been made of late, by persons whose opinions 
must be respected, to the effect that the State of Iowa should pro¬ 
vide the small sum necessary to give retiring allowances to teach¬ 
ers who deserve this recognition, rather than ask for such aid from 
another source. The Legislature has gone on record as desiring to 
have a pension system. It is well known that college teachers are 
poorly paid, and the fact is evident to many who are closely in 
touch with the situation that efficiency of a college teaching staff is 
seriously affected when teachers who should no longer be in service 
are continued in service, as is now the practice and will certainly 
remain the practice until some appropriate plan is put into oper¬ 
ation to care for them at least in part. 

This subject has been thoroughly studied by Dean Eugene Dav¬ 
enport of the University of Illinois, and he has shown that an insti¬ 
tution with a given amount of money for salary payments will 
secure larger and better returns if it sets aside a small portion of 
this fund to be used for retiring allowances and requires full and 
efficient service from all persons on the salary roll. In other words, 
a faculty made up entirely of strong, vigorous teachers, whose total 
salary payments amount to a given sum, is more efficient than a 
faculty including a few who have passed their period of efficiency, 
though this latter faculty receives a larger amount in salaries. 

It is urgently recommended that provision be made by the legis¬ 
lature whereby a reasonable proportion of funds available for sal¬ 
aries may be set aside by the Board of Education annually for use 
as retiring allowances as the Board of Education may determine, 
the benefits to be extended to those who have served long and faith¬ 
fully, and, to a limited extent, to their dependents. 


COLLEGIATE WORK 


57 


COLLEGIATE WORK. 


In 1911 a circular was issued by the United States Bureau of 
Education in which it was attempted to classify universities and 
colleges with reference to the value of their educational wqrk. 
Class I includes many of the leading institutions of the country. 
Its definition is as follows: “Institutions whose graduates would 
ordinarily be able to take the Master’s Degree at any of the leading 
graduate schools in one year after receiving the Bachelor’s Degree 
without necessarily doing more than the amount of work regularly 
prescribed for such high degree. ’ ’ 

In accordance with this definition, Iowa State College of Agri¬ 
culture and Mechanic Arts may be included in the Class I list with 
her corresponding sister institutions in the adjoining and more dis¬ 
tant states. 

Through action of the Board of Education, steps have been taken . 
to establish profitable co-operative arrangements between the State 
College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and other universities 
and colleges of the State, whereby students may take three years 
of work in the other institution, then two years of technical work 
at this College, a total of five years in the two institutions, and re¬ 
ceive a degree from each. It is believed this arrangement will be 
profitable on both sides. It will, for example, permit many young 
men interested in agriculture or engineering to take their prelim¬ 
inary foundation work, which is mostly covered by our freshman 
and sophomore years, in another institution of their choice, and 
come to Ames for the two years work which are given to juniors 
and seniors. This will tend to lessen the number of students in the 
lower classes in this College and may benefit some by permitting 
them to take a part of their college work nearer home or in an in¬ 
stitution favored by themselves or their parents for any reason, 
and it will relieve the other institution of the necessity of dupli¬ 
cating the expensive equipment provided here by the State for 
giving technical instruction. The five years of work should result 
in a course somewhat stronger along so-called cultural lines than 


58 


IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


a four-year course in this College. It has an advantage also in 
leading to a degree from each institution. The plan depends upon 
a thorough understanding between the two institutions, whereby 
each is willing to accept the work of the other, and under which 
the courses will be worked out jointly so that there will be no ques¬ 
tion concerning the work in one institution fitting that given to the 
student at the other place. Co-operative arrangements are now 
under consideration with several institutions. 

Steps have been taken to bring the different divisions of this 
College into closer relations by providing for visiting committees 
in the different division faculties to attend meetings of other 
division faculties. There has been some embarrassment because 
important subjects in courses of study leading to a degree are not 
represented in the division faculty in immediate charge of that 
degree. For example, the botany department has not been repre¬ 
sented in the agricultural faculty, and the department of math¬ 
ematics has not been represented in the engineering faculty. Both 
botany and mathematics are taught in departments in the Division 
of Industrial Science. Physics has not been represented in the 
home economics faculty or agricultural faculty, although it is an 
important subject in agricultural and home economics courses. The 
physics department is included in the Division of Engineering, 
where most of its work is required. Under the new plan, each 
division is represented by a committee of three of its teachers in 
each other division faculty. Further progress along this line is 
being considered with the hope that a plan may be developed which 
will bring together representatives of all departments or divisions 
which give important instruction leading to any degree, in the fac¬ 
ulty which is primarily in charge of that degree. 

The State Board of Examiners is charged with important duties 
in connection with the supervision of teachers. The State College 
is not represented in the membership of the Board. As a consider¬ 
able number of students from this College enter the teaching pro¬ 
fession, and it is highly desirable that they should do so, it would 
seem that this College should be represented on the Board, together 
with the State University and the State Teachers’ College. It is 
believed that the State law should be amended to so provide. 

It may be well here again to emphasize that the national Land 
Grand Act of 1862, under which this College is founded, provides 
in no uncertain terms for collegiate grade of instruction in agricul¬ 
ture, engineering, and all other lines of work included in our cur- 


COLLEGIATE WORK 


59 


riculum. The Land Grant Act does not exclude other and lower 
grades of educational work, but in various ways it specifically pro¬ 
vides for collegiate work. As late as 1890 the author of the law, 
Hon. Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, wrote that he hoped no effort 
would be successful in reducing a land grant institution below the 
rank of a college, and he continued, “It was of course intended by 
giving the lead to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts to enable 
the sons of farmers to obtain an education to fit them as farmers 
or for any other vocation which they might choose. It was hoped 
to be particularly valuable to the industrial classes but it was never 
intended to exclude education of the highest dignity. ” 

From time to time even now, the question is raised as to whether 
land grant colleges are expected to do collegiate work. It is pointed 
out by some critics that as they are to serve the industrial classes it 
must be that Congress intended them k to do a lower grade of work. 
As if the industrial classes are not entitled to the best! Farmers 
and mechanics chiefly make up our industrial classes. Thus far in 
our history the industrial classes have contributed the most im¬ 
portant part of the learned men of the country. A better interpre¬ 
tation of the law would be that Congress wished to place the best 
educational facilities at the disposal of the great bulk of our popu¬ 
lation instead of having these advantages limited to comparatively 
few who are well to do or who might have special help in securing 
an education in a private institution. 

This national law provides for a college where the leading object 
is to be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agri¬ 
culture and the mechanic arts. This college teaching must be done 
to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial 
classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. This is 
called for by the national law and with the addition that it is to be 
without excluding other scientific and classical studies and that it 
is to include military tactics- 

Collegiate work was started at land grant colleges in many States, 
both in agriculture and mechanic arts, under the provisions of this 
national law. The situation was well known in Congress when 
section 4, which refers to the grade of instruction, was amended in 
1883. If Congress had wished to lower the grade of work in agri¬ 
culture or mechanic arts from the collegiate grade, they could have 
made further amendments in section 4, but the part of this section 
which relates directly and indirectly to the grade of work to be 
given was carefully left without change. 


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IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


The provisions of the Federal Land Grant Act have been accepted 
by the State of Iowa and the carrying out of these provisions has 
been entrusted to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Me¬ 
chanic Arts. The legislatures of Iowa have repeatedly shown that 
they want collegiate work of high character to be given at this Col¬ 
lege. This, of course, does not preclude sub-collegiate, experimen¬ 
tal, extension and short course work, but collegiate courses offered 
should be at least equal to corresponding courses in other land 
grant institutions, else they would not be good enough for many 
young men and young women of this State who have chosen agri¬ 
culture or engineering for their life .work and who wish *to have 
the best possible preparation. In these days it is recognized that 
agriculture or mechanic arts is as difficult to master as is law or 
liberal arts, and a thorough collegiate education is as profitable in 
the one as in the other. To advocate that education in agriculture 
of as high scholastic standard as education in other lines should 
not be offered in a great agricultural State, would be to indicate 
that agriculture is an inferior industry; at least it would be so 
regarded by the best and most promising young men and they 
would avoid such a calling. The same is true of engineering, vet¬ 
erinary medicine or industrial science, and it is true for young 
women in home economics. 

The giving of collegiate instruction is the largest activity of this 
College. Doubtless it will alwa<ys be so. The great purpose under¬ 
lying collegiate courses is to prepare young men and young women 
for the best possible service along technical lines. The college 
begins where the schools leave off. As the public school system 
becomes better developed and reaches higher and higher, college 
courses are correspondingly changed. At the present time work is 
given in colleges which later will be undertaken by the schools, and 
this will allow the college to raise its entrance requirements and 
reach higher in the junior and senior years. On account of the 
enormous addition to our knowledge being made available through 
investigations and discoveries, there is a large store of knowledge 
which it is becoming desirable to include in the college curriculum 
as rapidly as possible. 

AGRICULTURE. 

The agricultural courses are intended to meet the requirements 
of the many who wish to secure collegiate instruction in the various 
phases of agriculture that are important in this State. 


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Almost everyone of the departments in the Agricultural Division 
is in need of additional facilities to enable it to keep up with the 
demands made upon it. It is not necessary to dwell upon the im¬ 
portance of animal husbandry or field crops or other such well 
known and well established subjects. Too much could hardly he 
asked for them. The prosperity of the State depends upon them. 
Every industry in Iowa is influenced by them. But it does seem 
necessary at times to emphasize the need of developing new lines 
of work for interests in the States that are less prominent but in 
themselves of great importance. 

The scope of agricultural education is broadening each year. 
This is largely due to changing economic conditions. The average 
person would say that bee keeping is unimportant but more than 
one farm in eight has bees. Their product is net gain to the State 
and besides this it would be impossible to overstate their impor¬ 
tance in fertilizing fruit and plant blossoms. And now the bees 
have their diseases and other troubles and they must be cared for 
intelligently. 

Another subject which is certain to impress itself more and more 
as needing attention is forestry, especially farm forestry. The tim¬ 
bered area of this State amounts to 2,500,000 acres or seven per 
cent of the State. This is the same percentage as is given for Illi¬ 
nois. Many timber plantations have paid good returns in addition 
to their value for aesthetic purposes and prevention of erosion. It 
is estimated that annually in this State the lumber used in wood¬ 
working industries is worth more than $8,000,000. Additional lum¬ 
ber is used to the value of more than $7,000,000 and fence posts to 
the value of $5,000,000. The fuel, railroad ties, posts and mine tim¬ 
bers are estimated to be worth annually $10,000,000. When we 
consider the influence of forestry on temperature, wind, rain, 
stream flow and soil erosion^in addition to lumber values, we find 
that the subject of forestry in Iowa is one of large importance. 

Floriculture is another subject, the importance of which is not 
recognized, yet this is a large industry and affects the welfare of 
many people in Iowa. In 1908 the Iowa Horticultural Society gave 
considerable emphasis to the need of instruction in floriculture. 
The College receives requests from a good many persons desiring 
instruction along this line. A beginning is being made. 

Market Milk Inspection. This is a subject of growing impor¬ 
tance. It affects the business of a large number of people and the 
health of almost every family living in city or town. 


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There has been gratifying growth throughout the Agricultural 
Division. An important change has been made in connection with 
the supervision of the department of agricultural engineering. This 
department has made a remarkable growth in recent years, due to 
sympathetic co-operation between the divisions of agriculture and 
engineering. The work of the collegiate course in agricultural 
engineering is drawn from both divisions but the larger part is 
from engineering. The students taking the course are about 
equally divided as to whether they will follow professional en¬ 
gineering or agricultural work. In order to give the department 
the best that the institution can afford, the Board of Education in 
July, 1913, directed that it shall be administered jointly by the 
deans of agriculture and engineering. 

Dean C. F. Curtiss calls special attention to the need of more 
liberal salaries if the best teachers are to be secured and held in the 
work of the College. Members of the faculty are resigning to ac¬ 
cept better paying positions in states having much smaller agri¬ 
cultural interests. The following is taken from the Dean’s report: 

The total enrollment of collegiate students in the Division of Agricul¬ 
ture during the year ending June 30, 1914, was 954; in the sub-collegiate 
one and two year courses it was 275, making a total of 1,229 enrolled 
for the full year’s work. In addition to this, there were 604 winter 
short course students enrolled for two weeks, making a total of 1,883 
in the Division of Agriculture. The freshmen, sophomores, juniors and 
seniors show an increase of 297 in number enrolled in the last college 
year as compared with two years earlier. This is a 47% increase. In 
the same period the number of sub-collegiate students increased about 
25%. 

The educational work in the Division of Agriculture includes the fol¬ 
lowing departments: Animal Husbandry, including Dairy Husbandry and 
Poultry Husbandry; Agronomy, including Soils, Farm Crops and Farm 
Management; Horticulture and Forestry; Dairying; Agricultural Engi¬ 
neering; Agricultural Journalism; and Agricultural Education. In the 
Animal Husbandry courses there is a Dairy Husbandry group of studies 
and a Poultry Husbandry group amounting to special courses in these 
subjects. In the Forestry Department a five-year collegiate course is 
offered in addition to the four-year course. In the Horticultural Depart¬ 
ment, Pomology and Gardening group subjects are offered which virtually 
amount to special courses in these subjects. 

All of the courses in the Division of Agriculture are organized upon 
an excellent basis, with thorough instruction in technical subjects prop¬ 
erly strengthened and supported by work in the natural sciences which 
come into close relation with the technical training. Emphasis has always 
been placed upon practical work in this institution in connection with 
the scientific and technical training. At least six months of practical 


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work are required of all students before graduation, and a large majority 
of the students spend all of their vacations in practical farm work of 
some kind. In addition to this, many of the students who enroll in the 
agricultural courses come from farms, where they have had practical 
farm experience for a number of years. An interesting development in 
agricultural education, however, is found in the fact that a considerable 
number of students entering both the two and four-year courses in agri¬ 
culture come from cities and towns, with comparatively little previous 
farm experience. This number has increased constantly from year to 
year, not only in this institution but in other institutions in the Missis¬ 
sippi Valley. In some cases from one-fourth to one-third of the students 
have come from the cities, and in a few instances nearly one-half the 
students enrolled in some of the agricultural courses have been boys from 
the cities and towns. These students are necessarily somewhat handi¬ 
capped by la'ck of practical experience. Most of them are required to spend 
all of their vacations in practical farm work, and in many cases this 
handicap is fully overcome and such students have been able, within a 
year or two after graduation, to take strong rank among agricultural 
college graduates. Some students drop out and take a year of practical 
work during their college course. 

There appears to be an increasing demand for five-year courses, either 
in the form of extending the course by an additional year of instruction, 
or by adding a year of post-graduate work. The post graduate courses 
are taken mainly by those students who expect to engage in educational 
or research work. 

Animal Husbandry Department. 

The faculty of the Animal Husbandry Department consists of Profes¬ 
sor W. H. Pew, three associate professors, three assistant professors, 
one fellow, one graduate assistant, one professor of Poultry Husbandry, 
and one assistant professor of Poultry Husbandry. This is the largest 
department in the institution. Its work is well organized and the instruct 
tion given has attracted students from all parts of the United States and 
from many foreign countries. Following are the courses of instruction 
and the number of students enrolled in each. 

No. of 

Course Subject of Course 

1. Market types of cattle and sheep. 

2. Market types of dairy cattle, horses and swine 

3. Breed types of cattle and sheep. 

4. Breed types of dairy cattle, horses and swine 

6. Advanced live stock judging. 

7. Herd book study. 

8. Animal breeding . 

9. Animal nutrition. 

10. Thesis . 


Feeding and Management of live stock. 164 

12 . 

13. Advanced work in beef production. 75 

14. Advanced work in pork production... 62 

15. Milk production . 81 

16. Advanced work in mutton and wool production. 71 


No. of 
Students 

447 

407 

196 

191 

59 

81 

70 

66 

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64 IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


17. Advanced work in horse feeding. 72 

20. Animal feeding . 48 

21. Principles of breeding. 33 

22 . 

Seminar . 267 

23. 

25. Advanced types and breeds of farm animals. 45 

26. Market and breed types of beef cattle and sheep. 23 

27. Market and breed types of dairy cattle, horses and swine. 27 

46. 

General poultry husbandry. 272 

47. 

48. Breed types and judging. 6 

51, Incubation . 5 

52. Brooding . 6 

55. Marketing and judging poultry products. 6 


Total . 2,832 


The above enrollment shows an increase of 453 students over the Ani¬ 
mal Husbandry enrollment during the year 1912-13. 

Fifty-eight men graduated from the four-year course in Animal Hus¬ 
bandry at the close of the last collegiate year. Forty of these men are 
engaged in practical farm work at present. Some of these young men are 
taking post graduate work and some have taken up college and experiment 
station work. Others have secured positions with stock yard companies 
and in other lines of work directly connected with agriculture. It is 
needless to say that not all the young men completing a college course 
are situated so that they can become proprietors of farms immediately. 
Some of the men are in debt when they leave college and have no available 
capital with which to engage in farming. It is the ambition, however, of 
practically every graduate from the agricultural courses to take up farm¬ 
ing as soon as possible. 

The enrollment in the Animal Husbandry Department has increased 
so rapidly that there is now urgent need for larger quarters, better 
facilities for giving the work, and increased equipment, both in live 
stock and in laboratories. The most urgent need in the way of buildings 
Is for an Animal Husbandry laboratory, for which the last legislature 
authorized an expenditure of $50,000 from millage tax funds when avail¬ 
able. A building of this kind, with equipment for the careful study and 
analysis of meat products in their finished form, sustains a vital relation 
to the field of animal husbandry. The work of the department has been 
seriously handicapped by the lack of these facilities. No other state has 
anything like as extensive interests in animal production as has Iowa, 
and no other institution has anything like as large a number of students 
enrolled in the Animal Husbandry courses as we have at Ames. It is 
highly important that proper facilities be provided for the best instruc¬ 
tion in this important branch of agriculture. 

The Dairy Husbandry work and Poultry Husbandry work have been 
seriously handicapped by lack of suitable laboratories and other buildings. 
Both of these lines represent very important branches of Animal Hus¬ 
bandry work. The poultry industry of this State is of large magnitude 
and outranks the poultry interests of all other states. It serves a most 
important purpose in contributing to the food supply of the State and 
of the Nation. 

















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Iowa’s dairy interests have come to be recognized as vitally related 
to the permanence and prosperity of the agricultural industry, and the 
dairy educational work should be strongly organized in this institution. 
The constantly increasing enrollment has greatly increased the demand 
for live stock equipment for class use, and the expansion of building 
operations has made some encroachment upon the grounds formerly used 
for live stock. To meet this situation we ought to have additional farm 
lands for maintaining a portion of the breeding herds and flocks and for 
growing feed for the same. This additional land should be purchased 
soon while land is available at moderate prices. Values are now fully 
100 per cent higher than they were eight or ten years ago, and there is 
every prospect that values will be still further increased. 

The poultry department is urgently in need of a laboratory building. 
At the present time some rooms in the Chemistry Building are being 
used as temporary quarters. A poultry laboratory building should be 
provided in the near future. Such a building should have ample pro¬ 
vision for educational and research work and be of fireproof construction. 

The buildings on the Dairy Farm are of cheap construction and are 
not altogether suited to their purpose. They also lack capacity for 
carrying on the work. A portion of the old building can be utilized for 
a judging pavilion, and new buildings should be provided. To furnish 
proper buildings and equipment will require an expenditure of not less 
than $35,000. The Animal Husbandry Department should have not less 
than 200 acres of additional land, which will cost not less than $200 per 
acre. This will amount to $40,000. 

Agronomy Department. 

The Agronomy Department includes the work of Soils, Farm Crops 
and Farm Management. The faculty consists of Professor W. H. Steven¬ 
son, head of the department and professor of Soils; Professor Hughes, 
head of the Farm Crops work, and Professor Munger, head of the Farm 
Management work; one professor of Soil Bacteriology, two associate pro¬ 
fessors, two assistant professors, three instructors, two graduate assist¬ 
ants, two student assistants. 

The work of this department is fundamental to all successful agri¬ 
culture. It deals primarily with soil, with crop production and with farm 
management. We have been fortunate in securing for the Farm Man¬ 
agement Professor H. B. Munger, of Cornell University, who has had 
excellent training and preparation in this field. Agriculture has been 
sadly lacking, in many instances, in business organization and system. 
The Farm Management instruction takes into account the essentials of 
successful organization and administration and the application of sound 
business policies to agriculture. It deals with the important problem 
of farm tenancy. During the past summer we have made a careful suf 
vey of one hundred farms in four counties in Iowa. During two year* 
past Professor Lloyd has been making a careful study of the farm tenancy 
conditions in this State. Some very important and interesting informa- 
tion has been obtained which will be published soon in the form of a 
bulletin which will be used as the basis of instruction and further in¬ 
vestigation. 


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The courses offered and the number of students enrolled in the Agron¬ 
omy Department during the past year are as follows: 


No. of No. of 

Course Subject of Course Students 

Soils. 


1 . Physics . 

2. Fertility . 

3. Research in physics. 

4. Research in Fertility. 

6 . Advanced fertility . 

7. Investigation of special soils. 

8 . Bacteriology . 

11. Thesis—three-hour credit . 

12. Thesis—five-hour credit. 

13. Soils survey and mapping. 

14. Advanced bacteriology . 

L5. Advanced physics . 

16. Advanced fertility .... 

17. Seminar . 

18. Seminar . 

Total . 

Farm Crops. 

1. Corn growing and judging. 

2. Small grain . 

3. Corn and small grain judging. 

4. Corn and small grain breeding. 

8 . Farm management .. 

9. 

Research . 

10 . 

15. 

Thesis . 

16. 

17. Grasses, forage and fiber crops. 

19. 

Seminar . 

20 . 

21. Special advanced judging. 


168 

149 

8 

21 

72 

12 

15 

7 

5 

17 

0 

2 

3 

24 

15 


518 


410 

372 

71 

29 

47 

21 


4 

124 

30 

45 


Total . 1,153 

The work of the department has been seriously handicapped by lack 
of laboratory room. Some changes in the assignment of chemistry work 
to the new building will afford temporary relief by the use of additional 
laboratories during the coming year; but there is an urgent need for a 
new, modern, well equipped building to provide for the work in the Soils, 
Farm Crops and Farm Management Departments. Such a building should 
be of fireproof construction and in harmony with the principal buildings 
upon the campus, and can be erected at a cost of not less than $100,000 
if it is made large enough to provide for the needs of these lines of work 
in the near future. The enrollment in this course has shown a very 
large increase during the past year, and with the work more completely 
organized as it is now, there is every assurance that there will be a 
constant increase in the future. 
































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Horticulture and Forestry. 

The faculty of the Horticulture and Forestry Department consists of 
Professor S. A. Beach, head of the department; Professor G. B. Mac¬ 
Donald, Professor of Forestry; Professor Erwin in charge of Truck Gar¬ 
dening; Professor Culley, in charge of Landscape Gardening; two asso¬ 
ciate professors, two assistant professors, three instructors and two stu¬ 
dent assistants. 

The work of this department is now well organized. It has been se¬ 
riously handicapped during the past two or three years by a lack of 
suitable laboratories and facilities for giving the work. The limitations 
have been such that we have been obliged to abandon a part of the work 
that has been offered in the Horticultural course during the past two 
years. With the completion of the new greenhouses and horticultural labora¬ 
tory, which will constitute a wing of the Plant Industry Building to be 
erected later, the work of the department will be on a good basis and the 
immediate needs well provided for. 

A division has been made during the past year between the forestry 
and horticultural work, and distinct four and five-year courses are now 
offered in forestry. The Forestry courses now compare favorably with 
the best offered in any of the forestry schools and the graduates from 
the forestry work in this institution have taken exceptionally high rank 
in civil service examinations and in government forestry work. Provi¬ 
sion for giving three months of practical work in a forestry camp in 
Minnesota durng the summer vacation has been of material assistance in 
strengthening the work of this department. 

The garden and truck farm interests of the State have grown to large 
proportions. For a number of years the institution has been called upon 
for more extensive service in this field than we have been able to render. 
The horticultural course is now organized witxi a group of studies having 
special reference to the training of students for gardening and truck 
farming. Some remarkably successful results have been obtained by 
practical men in the gardening and truck farming work in parts of the 
State where this work has become a specialty. Without question the 
State’s resources and attractiveness can be very greatly increased by the 
development of this phase of horticultural work. 

Landscape gardening serves a most important purpose in a compara¬ 
tively new agricultural State. The improvement and adornment of the 
farm home and surrounding grounds has a vital relation to the success 
and permanency of Iowa agriculture, and to the maintenance of a stable 
rural population. The landscape gardening work is equally serviceable 
to the residents of cities and towns. 


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Courses offered and students enrolled are as follows: 

No. of No. of 

Course Subject of Course Students 

Horticulture. 

3. Orcharding . 421 

4. Plant breeding. 49 

5. Systematic pomology . 9 

8 Landscape gardening . 152 

11, Amateur floriculture . 12 

13. Thesis . 1 

28. 

Seminar . 25 

29. ‘ 

31. Landscape design . 11 

30. Fruit judging .. 11 

32. Landscape design . 11 

33. Truck farming . 31 

34 and 35. Greenhouse management . 38 

37. Orchard practice . 3 

38. Plant propagation . 33 

39. Nursery and orchard practice. 30 

40. Small fruits . 10 

46. Fruit farm management. 5 

47. Care of street and park trees. 20 


Total . 842 

Forestry. 

1. Farm forestry . 293 

3. Forest planting . 15 

9. Forest management . 10 

10. Forest valuation and finance. 

11. Forest protection . 15 

12. Forest administration . 9 

15. Forest research . 

16. Camp technique . 15 

17. Forestry history and policy. 21 

18. 

■Seminar . 25 

19. 

21. Lumbering . 

22. Forest mensuration .‘. 

23. Forest utilization . 

25. Wood technology . 6 


Total . 409 


Total number enrolled in horticulture and forestry four- 

year courses . 1,251 

Dairy Department. 

The faculty of the Dairy Department consists of Professor Mortensen, 
one associate professor, one assistant professor, and four instructors. 

This department has attained very high rank among the dairy schools 
of the United States. Its work has been strong and efficient, both in 
scientific and practical instruction. Following are the courses offered 
and the number of students enrolled in each: 








































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No. of ’ No. of 

Course Subject of Course Students 

10. Domestic dairying- . 23 

11. Cheese making . 16 

12. Farm dairying . 430 

13. Milk testing and milk inspection. 35 

14. Advanced butter making. 18 

16. Technology of milk. 12 

17. Dairy bacteriology . 21 

19. Seminar. 9 

20. Factory management . 10 

21. Ice cream and ices. 7 

23. Thesis ,. . 9 

24. Fancy cheese making. 16 

25. Advanced dairy bacteriology. 1 

26. Judging dairy products. 16 

27. Advanced butter making. 13 

28. Advanced butter judging..'. 11 


Total . 647 


The investigations and instruction work of this department have 
established a high standard of efficiency in the dairy industry of this 
State and other states. Provision has been made during the past year 
for instruction in commercial milk production. The problem of im¬ 
proved methods in the production, manufacture and marketing of dairy 
products is one of the greatest importance to the agricultural industry 
and to the welfare of all of the people of the state and nation. No branch 
of agriculture in Iowa has made more marked progress in recent years 
than dairying. Where modern, intelligent methods have been followed 
it has brought profit to the dairy farm and restored fertility to impov¬ 
erished soil. No branch of agriculture has a more direct relation to the 
maintenance of prosperous and successful rural life than dairying. 

The Dairy Department is in urgent need of a $25,000 additional build¬ 
ing. The present building is entirely inadequate to meet the rapidly 
increasing needs of the dairy work. 

Agricultural Engineering Department. 

The faculty of this department consists of Professor Davidson, one 
associate professor, one assistant professor, four instructors and one 
scholar. The department is administered jointly by the Dean of Agri¬ 
culture and the Dean of Engineering. 

This department has made marked growth during the past biennial 
period. It is recognized as occupying the foremost rank among similar 
departments of the United States. It was the first to offer a four-year 
collegiate course in Agricultural Engineering. The courses offered and 
the student enrollment are as follows: 


No. of No. of 

Course Subject of Course Students 

1 . 

Shop work. 687 

2 . 

3. Farm blacksmithing- and horseshoeing. 19 

4. Agricultural surveying . 157 

5. Farm machinery and farm motors. 125 
























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6 . Farm structures . 

9, 

Research . 

10 . 

11 . 

Thesis . 

12 . 

13. Gas and oil engines and tractors 

14. 

Seminar . 

15. 

16. Farm machinery . 

17. Farm motors . 

18. Farm motors . 

19. Rural sanitation . 

20. Irrigation and drainage. 

21 . Concrete construction . 

22. Horticultural machinery . 

23. Dairy engineering . 

24. Farm structures . 

25. 

Technical lectures . 

26. 

27. Drainage engineering. 

28. Irrigation .. 

29. Graphic methods . 

30. Farm structures . 

31. Irrigation and drainage. 

32. Irrigation engineering . 

33. Drainage engineering. 


5 

11 

14 

23 

30 


43 

34 

22 

24 

2 

4 

10 

10 

19 

126 


New 

254 

2 


New 

New 


Total 


1,658 


The following table indicates the number of freshmen enrolled in 
Agricultural Engineering since the announcement of the special course. 
Freshmen in the Agricultural Engineering course: 


1909 . 3 

1910 20 

1911 . 36 

1912 . 51 

1913 . 70 


The following table indicates the number of graduates in Agricultural 
Engineering for the past five years and the increase from year to year. 
Graduates in Agricultural Engineering: 


1910 . 1 

1911 .*. 2 

1912 . 3 

1913 . 10 

1914 . 15 


There is a most urgent need for strengthening and extending the work 
of the Department of Agricultural Engineering. The total investment in 
farm machinery in this State, according to the last census, was $95,000,000. 
No other state approaches this expenditure for agricultural machinery. 
The question of the economical construction, lighting, ventilation and 
sanitation of farm buildings is a problem of vital importance that has 
received very little consideration in the past. The whole field of rural 
architecture and rural engineering has been neglected. The Agricultural 




































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Engineering Department in this institution has entirely outgrown its 
present quarters and a new building is urgently needed. Such a building 
should constitute one of the permanent fireproof buildings of the campus, 
and if properly planned and constructed to meet the immediate and future 
needs, a suitable building will cost $200,000. 

Agricultural Education Department. 


The faculty of the Department of Agricultural Education consists of 
Professor G. M. Wilson, one assistant professor, one director of practice 
teaching in Home Economics and one director of practice teaching in 
Agriculture. 

This department has grown out of the demand made upon this institu¬ 
tion for the training of teachers of agriculture for the secondary schools. 
In at least twenty states the teaching of agriculture is required by law 
in all of the public schools. In 1910 there were 630 high schools and 
secondary schools in the United States giving instruction in agriculture. 
At the present time there are probably 2,500 high schools and schools of 
secondary grade giving instruction in agriculture. The demand for 
teachers is increasing more rapidly than they can be supplied by the 
agricultural colleges and by the other institutions giving limited training 
in agriculture. 

The enrollment of students in the Department of Agricultural Edu¬ 
cation has made a marked increase during the past three years, as shown 
by the following tabulation: 


No. of 

Course Subject of Course 

1. Principles of education.... 

2. Principles of education.... 

3. Secondary education . 

4. Secondary education . 

5. History of education.. 

6 . History of education. 

8 . Industrial education . 

9. School administration ... . 

10. School administration 

11. Practice teaching . 

12. Practice teaching . 


No. Students 
1912-13 
13 
7 


15 
12 

16 


No. Students 
1913-14 
88 
34 
17 
19 
17 
19 

6 

4 

47 

45 


Total 


63 296 


There is no longer any uncertainty about the demand for industrial 
training in the public schools. It has come to be regarded as a funda¬ 
mental and essential part of our educational system. The Thirty-fifth 
General Assembly made provision for the teaching of agriculture and 
home economics in all of the public schools of Iowa, beginning in 1915. 
The Department of Agricutural Education, in conjunction with the other 
departments, provides for the training of teachers of agriculture and 
home economics. There is no single field of work in which the institu¬ 
tion has had, in recent years, such an overwhelming demand for its 
graduates as in the preparation of teachers of these two branches. This 
demand is so extensive that it will be impossible for all of the educa¬ 
tional institutions combined to furnish an adequate supply of teachers 
in the immediate years to come. 














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IOWA STATE COLLEGE 


To render the largest possible service in this field, provision should 
be made for a School of Agriculture in connection with this institution. 
Such a school of agriculture would serve as a model for all the com' 
munities of the State where this work is to be established. It would 
meet a most important need in connection with the practice work in 
the training of teachers, and would command a large enrollment of 
students from the beginning. 

Agricultural Journalism. 

This department is in charge of Professor F. W. Beckman. Its work 
includes instruction of students who wish to prepare themselves for work 
in agricultural journalism. It also includes a large amount of editorial 
work for the Division of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment 
Station and certain publicity work of the college. This department en¬ 
deavors to give to the press the most important news items concerning 
the college and its educational work and many items of information 
originating at the college that might be helpful in the various fields of 
industry which the college seeks to serve. This is one of the chief ways 
in which the college sends out information to the people who maintain it. 

The department needs additional help and it is desirable to somewhat 
enlarge its scope so as to increase its usefulness, but within the field 
of work assigned to this college. There is an increasing demand for 
trained young men and women in journalism devoted to the interests 
of agriculture, engineering and home making. Such positions require 
thorough training in the technical subjects even more than journalistic 
training, although the latter has now become almost vitally important. 
This latter could be cared for with slight additional cost and it would 
increase the service of the technical departments which are already 
sufficiently equipped. 

Through the department of agricultural journalism the college could 
render valuable service to country editors, some of whom need a better 
understanding of agriculture and rural life. The country newspapers 
and their associated job offices represent an investment of millions of 
dollars, thousands of men are employed, and the product directly in¬ 
fluences the characters and activities of a lafge portion of the population 
of the State. In so far as it is appropriate to do so this college could 
render most valuable service to these interests. 

ENGINEERING. 

From time to time the question is raised as to whether the term 
‘ * Mechanic Arts ’ ’ in the original law establishing land grant insti¬ 
tutions should be construed to mean “Engineering” as that term 
is understood today. The perusal of standard dictionaries in use 
in 1862 brings out the fact that the meanings of these two terms 
have been almost reversed in the last fifty years. In 1862 
‘ 1 Mechanic Arts ’ ’ meant as nearly as possible what today we under¬ 
stand by the term “Engineering,” and in 1862 the term “En¬ 
gineering” had a very restricted meaning. It is easy to show that 


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the provisions of the original law justify and even require such 
grade of instruction in engineering as is now given in this and 
others of the best known land grant institutions. 

This matter is covered by a resolution unanimously adopted at 
the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Association of American 
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, held in Portland, 
Oregon, in 1909, which reads: 

Resolved, That it is the sense of this association that the national 
laws which constitute the charter of the land grant colleges distinctly 
prescribe work of collegiate grade in agriculture and mechanic arts, in¬ 
cluding engineering in all its branches, and the sciences related to the 
industries, irrespective of whether the colleges are established separately 
or as parts of universities. 

The United States government recognizes such a standard in its 
regulations. 

The Board of Education has expressed itself firmly of the opin¬ 
ion that engineering instruction belongs at this institution with 
agriculture. In taking this position the Board is in true harmony 
with the leading agricultural thought. Ex-Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture Hon. James Wilson was asked his opinion as to the desirabil¬ 
ity of maintaining engineering instruction in a college where agri¬ 
culture is taught and he replied as follows: 

“I am well satisfied that the interests of engineering and agriculture 
are so closely related in Iowa as to require close association of the educa¬ 
tional work in these two lines. Second, I have no doubt whatever but 
that a wise interpretation of the Morrill law would lead one to reach the 
conclusion that it did require instruction in engineering such as has 
been given at practically all of the land grant colleges.” 

The fact is that both agriculture and engineering are highly tech¬ 
nical subjects and they supplement one another. Each is helpful 
to the other. Agricultural work is coming to depend more and 
more upon engineering knowledge. This relates especially to land 
drainage, building construction, and the utilization, of power and 
complicated machinery. An attempt to restrict or reduce engineer¬ 
ing instruction in a land grant college would injure agriculture. 

All the departments in the Engineering Division are well 
equipped and their equipment has been improved during the last 
biennium. Further equipment is needed. Even with these improve¬ 
ments and those contemplated, the average cost per student enrolled 
in engineering at Ames is low as compared with other institutions 
of equal rank. 

The Dean of Engineering has been honored by election to the 


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presidency of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Edu¬ 
cation and the presidency of the Land Grant College Engineering 
Association. 

The following is taken from the report of Dean A. Marston : 

General Developments. 

The general developments in engineering at the Iowa State College 
during the past biennium have all bedn of a nature which adapts the 
work to the special requirements of Iowa while at the same time broaden¬ 
ing its character and improving its general quality. New lines of col¬ 
legiate work taken up during the past biennium are Highway Engineer¬ 
ing, Structure Design and Transportation Engineering. 

The Iowa State College has the honor of being the first to organize 
formally at one institution all three of the great lines of engineering 
educational work now recognized, viz: 

Professional Engineering Education, 

An Engineering Experiment Station, 

Engineering Extension (including Trade School). 

Especial attention is being given by the great engineering schools at 
the present time to the comparatively new subjects of experiment station 
and extension work. A recent circular inquiry has brought reports from 
almost all showing their great interest. It is now coming to be realized 
that the wide extension of mechanic arts instruction beyond the walls 
of colleges is a vital necessity to the state and nation. Inquiries as to 
our work and plans have been received during the year from all over 
the United States. 

Go-operation With Other College Divisions. 

A marked improvement has been made in our college during the past 
biennium toward greater efficiency by closer co-operation between the 
different divisions. Agricultural and science students can now elect 
some engineering subjects, and engineering students some agriculture and 
advanced science. The Engineering and the Science Divisions unite in a 
combined five-year course in science and engineering, whereby any student 
may in five years secure two degrees, in Science and in Engineering, 
respectively. 

Co-operation With Other Iowa Colleges. 

We have to report that the new plan of co-operation of the Iowa State 
College with other colleges is proving a success in our work. We now 
have graduates of other good colleges in the State entering here for 
engineering degrees, which they secure by two years additional work. 
Other prospective students are arranging by correspondence for five-year 
co-operative courses with other colleges whereby the Science degree is 
granted by the other college and the Engineering degree here. 

Professional Engineering Educational Work. 

Educating professional engineers continues the most important work 
of the Engineering Division. We now offer eight four-year and six five- 
year professional engineering courses of the highest grade, with the usual 
standard entrance requirements—graduation from an accredited four year 


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high school. Our engineering equipment is large and growing, though 
not yet nearly what it should be. It is housed in ten engineering build¬ 
ings. 

Agricultural Engineering. 

This department is administered jointly through the Deans of Agri¬ 
culture and Engineering. The work in agricultural engineering has had 
a most remarkable growth. The number taking the professional four 
year course increased during the biennium from 57 to 135. In addition 
all agricultural students take some of this work, and the civil engineer¬ 
ing students take irrigation and drainage. The total number of student 
classifications in agricultural engineering subjects increased from 1,174 
to 1,658 during the last two years. 

The greatly increased amount of work demands additional instructors 
and equipment. Also, a new agricultural engineering building is greatly 
needed. At present the department is incompletely and inconveniently 
housed in an old building erected for another purpose. It is recom¬ 
mended that a new building be provided which is adapted to this line 
of work, at a cost of $225,000. 

Civil Engineering. 

Civil engineering has been one of our strongest four-year courses ever 
since the college was started. Structural engineering, railway engineer¬ 
ing, highway engineering, hydraulic and sanitary engineering, geodesy and 
surveying, civil engineering laboratories, and civil engineering drawing 
are each in responsible charge of a competent professor. The quality of 
the work has been greatly improved during the last two years. 

Some addition will need to be made to the instruction staff of the 
department to assist in laboratory and surveying work. Also the depart¬ 
ment needs a large amount of new laboratory and geodetic equipment. 

Electrical Engineering. 

Electrical engineering has the largest student enrollment of any of 
our engineering courses but has only four men in its faculty. The faculty 
should be increased by the addition of an associate or assistant professor 
of telephone engineering and by a new laboratory assistant. The tele¬ 
phone industry is very important in Iowa, where a telephone is found in 
nearly every farmer’s home. The telephone interests of the State are 
making strenuous demands upon us for better facilities for instruction in 
their line. The college has been giving instruction in telephony for 
several years, and steps, have been taken for enlarging this branch of 
work. 

The electrical engineering department needs considerably more space 
for new laboratories, computing and class rooms. It also needs a large 
amount of new and modern equipment. 

Mechanical Engineering. 

Mechanical engineering is one of our oldest and strongest engineering 
courses, established when the college was started. The department gives 
instruction in shop work, in mechanical drawing and in mechanics, to all 
engineering students. 


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The biennium has seen the completion and main equipment of the new 
Steam and Gas Laboratory, one of the best in the country. Since the 
completion of the new Transportation Engineering Building, with its 
locomotive and automobile testing laboratories, the instruction by the 
mechanical engineering department in railway mechanical engineering 
and in automobile engineering has been greatly improved and extended. 
Additional laboratory and shop equipment is needed in considerable 
amount to complete the equipment of buildings already erected. 

Mining Engineering and Geology. 

This department has charge of several lines of work, as follows: 
Mining engineering, ceramic engineering, chemical engineering, and 
geology. In the first three lines of work regular four year professional 
engineering courses are offered. All of these departments are very im¬ 
portant to Iowa, but are expensive and difficult to build up and properly 
maintain. They do not as a rule attract many students in the various 
institutions maintaining them. Nevertheless they offer great opportuni¬ 
ties to graduates and are absolutely essential to the proper development 
of Iowa industries. We should use every effort by providing additional 
equipment to develop these three lines of engineering work. In chemi¬ 
cal engineering the completion of the new Chemistry Building and the 
general improvements of our work in chemistry, together with the 
greatly increased demands for chemists, have materially increased the 
enrollment of students. The European war is forcing attention to the 
manufacture of chemical products in the United States. 

A small building should be provided for ore dressing, coal washing 
and kiln and furnace, at cost of about $7,000. 

We feel that there is great need in this State for special development 
of geology as applied to agriculture, and are pleased to report considerable 
progress in this direction. A number of members of the agricultural 
division faculty are taking post-graduate work in this line. Elective 
work in the same subject is offered to all agricultural students. 

Physics and Illuminating Engineering. 

Owing to the recent great increase in the number of agricultural and 
home economics students taking physics, a critical stage in the work of 
this department has been reached. All the agricultural and home eco¬ 
nomics students are now required to take physics at the proper times in 
their courses of study. 

The number of student credit hours in physics has increased from 
2313 in 1911-12 to 3296 for 1913-14, and an estimated total of 4204 for 
1914-15. Thus the work has nearly doubled in three years. As a conse¬ 
quence, the inadequate instructing staff of the department has been 
carrying a heavy burden, and although some relief has been afforded in 
the past year, additional help is still needed. Additional laboratories 
properly equipped must be made available for the department as soon 
as possible. 

Besides improving the already excellent work in physics for engi¬ 
neering students, it is proposed to develop at once new laboratory 


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courses in the special applications of physics to home economics and 
to agriculture. 

It is recommended that a new physics building be provided to house 
the physics department at a cost of $150,000. 

Structure Design . 

The new department of structure design, created to do pioneer work 
in the application of architecture to industrial structures, farm struc¬ 
tures and the home, has already enrolled so many students as to de¬ 
mand the services of a competent associate or assistant professor next 
year. Additional equipment is needed. Three special courses are be¬ 
ing prepared for the benefit of the students in home economics, engi¬ 
neering and agriculture, respectively dealing with the application of 
structure design to homes, individual structures and farm structures. 

, Transportation Engineering. 

The great and rapidly increasing use of power vehicles on our pub¬ 
lic roads is rapidly making economic highway transportation a me¬ 
chanical problem. Interurban railways seem certain of a great future 
development. Steam railways have reached a point in development 
where scientific tests of all equipment in the interests of economy are 
a necessity. During the biennium we have constructed and are now 
equipping our new Transportation Engineering Laboratory, which is 
the only place west of the Mississippi river where complete scientific 
tests can be made of locomotives of all sizes, automobiles and signal 
and brake equipment. No dynamometer has as yet been supplied for the 
locomotive laboratory and the one desired would cost $8,000. About 
$2,000 additional is needed for miscellaneous transportation engineer¬ 
ing equipment. 

HOME ECONOMICS. 

In 1913, by action of the State Board of Education, the home 
economics work was reorganized as the Division of Home Econom¬ 
ics. Previously it had been a department in the Division of Agri¬ 
culture. It was considered that the work had become of sufficient 
importance to be recognized as equal with other main branches of 
work conducted by the college. Miss Catherine J. MacKay, who 
had been head of the department, was made acting dean of the 
division and she has since been made dean. 

This division has made remarkable growth in enrollment during 
the biennium. The student attendance in collegiate work has in¬ 
creased from 206 in 1911-12 to 446 in 1913-14, or an increase of 
117%. It is performing a most useful work and naturally its ' 
needs must increase if it is to meet the increasing demands. The 
graduates enter largely into teaching work but statistics show that 
very many of them soon become home makers. The work in home 
economics is developed strongly along technical lines but the course 


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includes studies in the Industrial Science Division, in English, lan¬ 
guages, history, economics, and public speaking, and in the Engin¬ 
eering Division in physics and drawing, and in certain agricultural 
studies. In February, 1913, there were 253 home economics stu¬ 
dents registered in agricultural subjects including dairying, garden¬ 
ing, horticulture, forestry, landscape gardening, farm crops, poul¬ 
try husbandry, agricultural botany, agricultural education and 
agricultural journalism. A canvass of the senior and junior classes 
showed that three times as many students preferred agricultural 
electives to liberal arts electives. This does not seem so strange 
when we remember that the farm land in Iowa operated by women 
is equivalent in area to a small state. Through the courtesy of the 
United States Census Bureau, exact data were compiled from the 
Census of 1910 for Page county and Story county as follows: 

In Page county 43 farms are operated by women who own them. 
These include 4,662 acres valued at $642,100. There are 145 farms 
in Page county owned by women and rented to tenants or others. 
These comprise 19,561 acres valued at $2,427,550. 

In Story county 43 farms are owned and operated by women 
and 12 others are operated by women. These 55 farms comprise 
3,937 acres valued at $510,590. In this county 183 farms are owned 
by women and rented to tenants or others. They comprise 31,176 
acres valued at $3,587,750. 

These are believed to be representative counties, and on the basis 
of these data it would appear that the farm land in Iowa owned 
and operated by women and owned by women and rented to ten¬ 
ants or others is worth between $300,000,000 and $400,000,000. It 
is natural and right that there should be a large demand from 
women for instruction in home economics and agriculture com¬ 
bined. 

The following is taken from Dean MacKay’s report: 

The purpose of the division is to train women as home makers and 
as teachers of and professional workers in home economics. A special 
effort is made to give a course that is properly balanced with refer¬ 
ence to the needs of such women. The technical side of the work is 
given chief emphasis but work in literary, economics and other suit¬ 
able subjects is included. Positions open for college trained women 
are dietitians in dormitories, clubs and hospitals, managers of dining 
and lunch rooms and cafeterias, food and sanitary officers, public lec¬ 
turers and demonstrators, writers for women’s columns, extension 
workers, county supervisors in home economics, social workers, designers 
for manufacturing establishments, milliners and dressmakers, and 
teachers. 


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The instruction in home economics has been given under two groups: 

Domestic Science, which includes food preparation, cookery, home nurs¬ 
ing, household management, nutrition, personal hygiene and theory and 
practice teaching. 

Domestic Art, which includes sewing, elementary and advanced dress¬ 
making, elementary and advanced textiles, textile design, millinery, ap¬ 
plied design, history of art and costume design. 

The physical culture department, which has charge of physical exercise 
for women students, recently has been transferred to this division for 
administration. 

In connection with the department of agricultural education, courses in 
education are given which meet the requirements for State certificates. 
Work in practice teaching for senior students is carried on in co-opera¬ 
tion with the public schools of Ames. The Ames high school maintains 
a normal training department, and domestic science and domestic art are 
required subjects of study. These subjects also are required in the public 
schools of lower grade. Senior students in home economics are given the 
privilege of teaching under expert observation. This work has been very 
successful and satisfactory. By its aid the graduates have been more 
thoroughly trained in class room methods and they have developed both 
ability and confidence. In connection with the public schools, classes 
have been formed for parents and others not attending school. These 
classes are under the supervision of the critic teachers and are taught 
by selected students of the senior class. 

In domestic art the work is given with a view to developing appreci¬ 
ation and judgment of art in home planning, house furnishing and decor¬ 
ating and costume design as well as in the more commonly recognized 
lines. Such work broadens and develops an interest in decorative art in 
the home and in the community. A small amount of instruction is given 
in drawing, which is especially applicable to the needs of home economics 
students. 

Dean MacKay puts special emphasis upon the need of additional 
teachers and the necessity of increasing salaries of professors and in¬ 
structors to enable the College to retain the services of the best. Too 
often it happens that when a good teacher has been found and has been 
in the work long enough to become thoroughly familiar with it and 
thoroughly efficient, another institution induces her to leave because of 
less required teaching work or larger salary, or both. If our standards 
of instruction are to be maintained the best prepared and trained teachers 
should be secured and kept in service at least a reasonable length of 
time. 

The home economics building was erected when there were 95 students 
in the department. In 1914-15, including students in the Industrial 
Science Division who take work in home economics, there will be approxi¬ 
mately 600 students. Partitions have been removed to enlarge class 
rooms and laboratories, thereby reducing the number of rooms available. 
There are now only two class rooms left in the building and it is neces¬ 
sary to find additional space in s^me other building. There is no room 
in the home economics building large enough to assemble the lower 
classes, or even the upper classes. 


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A new building is urgently recommended. There are abundant evi¬ 
dences that the enrollment will continue to increase for some years to 
come. Suitable class rooms, laboratories, cloak rooms, study and rest 
rooms, and storage rooms are essential to good work. Space should be 
provided for department exhibits having educational value. Numerous 
minor improvements are also needed. It is recommended that a swim¬ 
ming pool be provided in connection with the young women’s gymnasium. 

INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE. 

Dr. R. E. Buchanan, head of the Department of Bacteriology, 
was appointed Acting Dean of this Division in 1913, and since 
has been made Dean. 

This division is given the name Industrial Science to emphasize 
die fact that its work is planned and conducted with a view to 
the application of science to the practical affairs of life. Under 
the organization of the college which has obtained for many years, 
a large part of the fundamental scientific work given to students 
in agriculture, engineering and home economics courses falls with¬ 
in this division. For example: chemistry is given in a department 
of the Division of Industrial Science. This division teaches about 
three-fifths of all the class work and about one-third of all the 
laboratory work given in the entire college. About ninety (90) 
per cent of the funds expended through the Division of Industrial 
Science is directly for the benefit of students in other divisions. 
About two-thirds of the salaries and current expenses of this divi¬ 
sion are directly for the benefit of students in agriculture and 
home economics. Practically every course offered by the Industrial 
Science departments is for the benefit of students in the other tech¬ 
nical divisions named. Perhaps three or four per cent of the 350 
courses in the Industrial Science Division are available as electives 
only to students seeking the Industrial Science degree. It is like¬ 
ly that these courses will be made useful also to a limited number 
of students in other courses permitting elective work. 

To leave no doubt as to the purpose of the faculty of this division 
to meet the requirements of other divisions in connection with work 
given for these other divisions, the faculty of the Division of In¬ 
dustrial Science in the year 1912-13 expressed itself by the follow¬ 
ing resolution: 

Resolved: That it is the sense of the faculty of the Division of Indus¬ 
trial Science that the subjects taught by them and required in other divi¬ 
sions of the College be specifically outlined in the fullest cooperation 
with the respective departments for which such subjects are taught. 


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This shows that.in all studies emphasis is given to the practical 
applications. For example: the Department of History and Psy¬ 
chology recognizes that students taking its work are in this College 
to specialize in agriculture, engineering, industrial science, or home 
economics, and the courses are arranged accordingly. They are 
not arranged to meet the needs of those who wish to specialize in 
these subjects, nor are they treated simply as cultural studies, 
but as studies having a practical bearing on present day affairs. 
In the history department brief courses are included which deal 
with the history of industrial development of the United States 
and of the state of Iowa. Special attention is given to the history 
of agricultural development and the growth of manufacturing in¬ 
dustries. The history of the public domain is included. In 
psychology instruction is given which bears directly upon the 
needs of the business man and the employer of labor. Courses 
are given also to meet the minimum requirements for those de¬ 
siring to secure teachers’ certificates. 

The course leading to a degree in industrial science is not at¬ 
tended by a very large number of students but it is one of the 
vital features of the College work. A land grant institution with¬ 
out such a course would be an anomaly. Men who have taken this 
course today are filling positions of the highest importance in the 
world of science, especially agricultural science. They are experts 
upon plant diseases, insect pests, economic botany including grasses 
and forage plants, and horticulture. These men may be found in 
leading teaching and investigating positions in colleges, experiment 
stations, and the United States government service. By a co¬ 
operative course overlapping agriculture and industrial science, 
a student may now prepare himself in the best manner possible 
for such positions as were just referred to. 

The following is taken from the report of Dean R. E. Buchanan: 

Several Departments in the Division of Industrial Science have been 
reorganized within the past year partially or wholly upon a committee 
basis, the committees in charge consisting of members of the staff with 
rank of assistant professor or above. The committee chairmen are ap¬ 
pointed annually by the president. The departments at present thui 
organized are: Applied Economics and Social Science, Chemistry, and 
Physical Training. 

Needs of the Division. 

The departments of this division are greatly in need of additional 
teachers and recitation and laboratory room space. It must be borne 
in mind that the needs of this division increase rapidly inasmuch as 


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increases in enrollment in all divisions of the institution increase pro¬ 
portionately the amount of work to he given by the teachers within this 
division. It is urgent that an effort should be made to house the follow¬ 
ing departments in new buildings during the ensuing biennium: Zoology, 
Bacteriology and Hygiene, Botany, Library, and Military Science and 
Tactics. 

It will be necessary to find additional room also for the following 
departments: English, Modern Languages, Mathematics, and Applied 

Economics and Social Science. 

Department of Bacteriology and Hygiene. 

The work of the Department of Bacteriology is directed along several 
distinct lines: General Bacteriology (in preparation for more technical 
bacteriology), Home Economics Bacteriology, Sanitary Bacteriology, Soil 
Bacteriology, Dairy Bacteriology, and Veterinary Bacteriology. 

It has been the effort of this department to develop all of the phases 
of the science of bacteriology which would prove of value to the students 
in technology. During the past biennium we have started to develop and 
emphasize the work in Home Economics and Sanitary Bacteriology. 

The great increase in the size of freshmen agricultural and home eco¬ 
nomics classes during the past several years is making itself felt in the 
work in bacteriology, which comes for the most part in the junior years 
of these courses. The increase in the amount of class and laboratory 
work will require additional instructors within the next biennium. 

The present quarters for Sanitary Bacteriology and Household Bacteri¬ 
ology are inadequate and within a year will become seriously crowded; 
furthermore, the room now occupied is greatly needed by other depart¬ 
ments. Plans are now being drawn for a new building. A portion of it 
is to house the departments of Bacteriology and Zoology jointly and is 
needed at once, and it is recommended that this portion of the building 
be built during the year 1915-16, and that the entire building be com¬ 
pleted as soon thereafter as practicable. Provision will need to be made 
for equipping and furnishing this building, together with some additional 
special departmental equipment. 

Department of Botany. 

The teaching required of this department has increased very rapidly 
during the past biennium. Recognition of the fundamental nature of 
botany in its application is accorded in the various courses in four of 
the divisions of the institution. During the past biennium a serious effort 
has been made to place the instruction in morphology and physiology upon 
a firmer basis. The department needs an assistant or an associate pro¬ 
fessor in plant pathology, and additional assistants. 

Additional space is required for this department and temporary relief 
will be given with the removal of Bacteriology from Central Building. 
This building, however, is not well adapted to laboratory purposes and 
it is urgently recommended, therefore, that plans should be made in the 
immediate future for the removal of botany to a new building in the 
science or plant industry group. 


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Department of Chemistry. 

At the present time the Department of Chemistry is installed in its 
new building which takes the place of the Chemistry Building which was 
destroyed by fire in the spring of 1913. The fact that practically every 
student in this institution is required to take chemistry testifies to the 
fundamental nature of the work. In consequence the number of students 
enrolled in courses in chemistry has increased from 600 in 1910 to 1,800 
in 1914. The urgent needs of the department are three in number: First: 
Permanent desks, lockers and plumbing for laboratories. Second: Addi¬ 
tional new departmental equipment to replace equipment destroyed by 
fire. Third: Additional instructors. 

Department of Economics and Social Science. 

The work of this department has been strengthened during the past 
biennium by providing instructors to give agricultural economics and 
rural sociology courses to students in agriculture and home economics. 
It is proposed to still further strengthen the work of the department by 
providing further courses in agricultural law and forest economics in 
the fall of 1914. It is recommended that provision be made for an in¬ 
structor to teach accountancy in the year 1915-16. This subject is of 
utmost importance in connection with farm management. Within the 
next biennium this department will unquestionably need additional reci¬ 
tation and office rooms. 


Department of English. 

The staff of the Department of English has been divided into three 
committees consisting respectively of the teachers who have to do with 
English primarily for students in agriculture, engineering and home 
economics. Each committee is headed by a chairman and it is planned 
that the chairmen will get in touch with the technical division faculties 
so that the work in the English Department may be coordinated with the 
work in the technical department. 

The teaching force of the Department of English has been increased 
during the past biennium until the amount of work required of each 
teacher is now more reasonable than in 1912-13; it is still larger than the 
maximum of efficiency would demand. Several new instructors will be 
needed during the ensuing biennium. It will be necessary to provide 
additional recitation rooms during the coming biennium on account of 
the increasing enrollment of students. 

Department of History and Psychology. 

The number of students has now increased to more than 150 in ele¬ 
mentary classes in this subject in addition to the advanced classes. The 
staff of this department will be strengthened the coming year by the 
addition of an assistant professor to teach the elementary work in 
psychology. The courses given are well adapted to the type of education 
for which this institution stands, and include courses in industrial and 
economic history in which American public land policies are outlined, 
also the Western Movement and Industrial History of the United States 
and England. 


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Library. 

During the past biennium the library has been moved from its old 
quarters in Morrill Hall to temporary quarters in Central Building. The 
primary purpose of this move was to provide fireproof quarters for hous¬ 
ing the books. Adequate space, however, is not available in Central 
Building. 

On account of the crowded condition of the library, strong departmental 
libraries have come into existence. The engineering library is housed 
in Engineering Hall, the agricultural library in Agricultural Hall, and 
most of the books on history, bacteriology, botany and chemistry and 
many of those for the Department of Economics, particularly the Catt 
Library, are housed in the .respective departments. 

The following needs of the library are emphatic: The experiment 
station and research work of this institution is seriously hampered by 
the inadequate library facilities. The need of a larger support fund has 
been recognized by general faculty action. At a regular meeting of the 
faculty in the spring of 1914, a resolution was adopted asking that at 
least $15,000 annually additional be appropriated to the library for books 
and periodicals. 

A new library building should be constructed in the near future. It 
should be large enough to provide for the growth of the library for a 
long period of years. Additional help is necessary. Six additional as¬ 
sistants should be provided. 

Department of Mathematics. 

As a result of the rapid increase of students in the freshman and 
sophomore years, a considerable increase in the staff of the department 
was imperative in 1912-13 and 1913-14. Some further additions will be 
necessary during the ensuing biennium. A conservative estimate of the 
needs of this department shows that with the use of rooms at their 
present efficiency, a net increase of five recitation rooms and four offices 
will be necessary. The courses in mathematics have been greatly strength¬ 
ened during the past two years by the addition of elective courses in 
technical and engineering mathematics. 

Department of Military Science. 

All men are required to drill two periods per week during their fresh¬ 
man year and the subject is optional with physical training or athletics 
during their sophomore year. This department is seriously handicapped 
by its inadequate housing. In the spring of 1914, the department moved 
into rooms temporarily provided in the new Transportation Building for 
storing of arms and for office. But still the department does not have 
an adequate place for drilling in inclement weather and much time is 
lost for this reason. Other institutions of this character are erecting 
large buildings for this purpose. As soon as practicable, adequate facili¬ 
ties should be provided. 

Department of Modern Languages. 

The subject of modern languages was dropped as a required subject 
from the courses in engineering last year. This permitted the dropping 


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of one instructor in German. It is probable, however, that the unexpected 
increase in the number of students registering in courses in scientific 
German will necessitate the addition of an instructor in this subject in 
the near future. The Department of Modern Languages is unique among 
other similar departments in institutions of this character in the emphasis 
which has been laid upon the courses in scientific German and French 
in contrast to the literary and dramatic. It is estimated that within 
the biennium two additional recitation rooms and two more offices and a 
modern language library and seminar room should be provided. 

* Department of Music. 

The Department of Music has been entirely reorganized during the 
past biennium. Musical instruction for which college credit is allowed 
is under the direct jurisdiction of the Department of Music. All private 
lessons for which tuition is charged are cared for by a separate organiza¬ 
tion, the Music Council. The need of proper housing and facilities for 
the department is urgent. The work of the department during the last 
year is to be commended because of its emphasis on music for the many 
rather than music for the few. 

Department of Physical Training. 

This department is now housed in a new building with adequate facil¬ 
ities for the best work, and takes care of the regular instruction work 
in physical training for which students receive credit on the books of the 
registrar. The greatest needs of this department at the present time are 
the completion of the playgrounds located west of the engineering group 
of buildings and a fence about the athletic field. The athletics are man¬ 
aged by a separate organization, the Athletic Council. 

Department of Public Speaking. 

It is the policy of this department to teach public speaking—not elocu¬ 
tion. Its most important work undoubtedly is the training which it gives 
in extemporaneous speaking. Its courses are deservedly popular. Con¬ 
siderable attention is being devoted to the encouragement of literary 
societies. 

Department of Zoology. 

Considerable relief will be afforded to the Department of Zoology the 
coming year by the housing of entomology in the Chemistry Building and 
the assignment of a portion of chemistry emergency building for labora¬ 
tory work in elementary zoology. As has been previously noted, it is 
hoped that the Department of Zoology will be housed in a building to be 
erected next year*—a building to be shared with the Department of 
Bacteriology. 

By the development of courses in entomology and apiculture during 
the coming year, the work of the department will be greatly strengthened. 
Probably there is no science of more importance to agriculture and horti¬ 
culture than entomology. 

It is probable that within the next biennium one instructor and two 
assistants will be needed in addition to the present staff. 


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VETERINARY MEDICINE. 

The Veterinary Division of this College is included in the list 
of accredited veterinary colleges of the United States as issued by 
the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. It was extensively 
written up and with most favorable comments in the American 
Journal of Veterinary Medicine for October, 1912. The work of 
the division is expanding and its value to the State is increasing, 
as would be expected of an institution newly provided with first 
class equipment and established by the State to serve live stock 
interests representing hundreds of millions of dollars. It should be 
kept in mind that the older a state becomes the more does it 
develop problems relating to animal disease. These are some¬ 
times very acute. A disease may make its appearance and 
cause enormous losses in only a few weeks. As an insurance 
measure against such losses it is well to have a strong veterinary 
department. The work of the division along research lines, in the 
extension field and in the production of hog cholera serum, is re¬ 
ferred to elsewhere. All these activities are of great value to the 
training of veterinarians for whom there is a large demand in 
Iowa and this work is the chief function of the division. 

An important innovation has been tried whereby senior students 
are assigned for two weeks practice with leading veterinarians 
throughout the State. This is to give them a further insight into 
the many phases of the veterinarian’s daily work. The students 
receive no compensation, but they do everything possible to assist 
the veterinarians to whom they are assigned. The experiment 
promises so well that the practice probably will be continued until 
a satisfactory ambulatory clinic can be organized. 

Another development which was made possible by a special ap¬ 
propriation by the last General Assembly is the Veterinary Prac¬ 
titioners’ Course, which continued one week and was attended by 
about seventy veterinarians who were given lectures and demon¬ 
strations and opportunity to discuss late developments of their 
science. This course was received with enthusiasm by the veteri¬ 
narians and a marked increase of attendance is expected when 
the next course is given. Hereafter it will probably be conducted 
by the Veterinary Division and the Extension Department forces. 

In 1910 the entrance requirements to the veterinary course were 
raised and made equal to the requirements for other college courses. 
There was a marked decrease in total attendance but it is inter¬ 
esting to note that the first class which entered under the higher 


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requirements graduated in 1914 eighty-five (85) per cent of its 
entering members, whereas the four preceding classes graduated 
respectively 41%, 47%, 56% and 41%. The second class entering 
under the new requirements, whose members are now juniors, is 
represented in College by 94% of its entering members. 

In addition to veterinary students, the division has given in¬ 
struction to a large number of students classified in other divi¬ 
sions, especially animal husbandry students. In one year about 
100 such students take work in pathology and bacteriology, about 
350 in anatomy and histology, about 100 in physiology, and about 
175 in surgery. 

Dean C. H. Stange points out the importance of enlarging and strength¬ 
ening the veterinary faculty in order that it may keep even with the 
increasing demands made upon it. The undergraduate veterinary stu¬ 
dents are now increasing in number, student enrollment from other 
divisions is rapidly increasing, and there is a marked increase in number 
of graduate students. Additional help is needed also to operate an am¬ 
bulatory clinic. The dean points out that members of the veterinary 
staff are making every effort to improve their work. Several of them 
are studying German in order that they may be able better to keep in 
touch with veterinary developments reported in that language. An urgent 
request is made for adequate salaries for the staff. Some of these experts 
have received and declined offers paying much more than they are paid 
by the College. 

In order to keep the important lines of work in the division well 
balanced, Dean Stange recommends special assistance during the next 
biennium for the departments of surgery, practice and physiology. He 
says that lack of funds has forced the surgery and practice departments 
to practically dispense with their free clinics and charge for such work 
done at the hospital. This reduces the calls for help and correspondingly 
reduces the educational training which the students should have. In 
1913-14 the record shows 1,204 surgical cases treated, of which 504 were 
on account of internal diseases. In physiology more work should be given 
on digestion. This is being called for more and more by advanced stu¬ 
dents in animal husbandry. Enterprising breeders of Iowa are going to 
schools in other states in search of such information which could be given 
here at slight additional cost. The largest benefit from stronger work 
along this line would come to the state through the veterinary student 
who later should become the reliable adviser to his many clients. Recom¬ 
mendation again is made for the establishment of an ambulatory clinic. 
For five years the need of this has been emphasized and now we find 
other and some smaller schools operating these clinics successfully. The 
plan of these clinics provides for taking a small group of students to the 
sick animal in the vicinity of the College. In this way many valuable 
cases of internal diseases, which are not otherwise accessible, are made 
available to the students. 


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In reference to funds for general support, Dean Stange points out that 
liberal increases are greatly needed. In some cases practically all the 
funds available have to he used for stenographic and janitor service, 
leaving very little for supplies, materials and special temporary help. 
The departments of pathology and anatomy have lost much valuable 
material for educational purposes because of insufficient funds to care 
for it. Better library facilities are also urgently recommended. Ad¬ 
vanced work is handicapped by lack of scientific reference books and 
periodicals. 

As to new buildings, Dean Stange,recommends the following: 

“The completion of the southwest building of the veterinary group for 
the research and diagnostic laboratories to relieve the pressure in some 
of the other buildings; 

“An additional story to the pathology and anatomy wings to relieve 
the pressure in these departments; 

“The construction of a laboratory building for biological products and 
a small-animal breeding building especially to relieve urgent needs of 
the serum and research work.” 

The dean also points out the importance of his division having a farm 
of about 160 acres to be used especially for clinical material and for re¬ 
search work and serum manufacture. Such a farm would be a distinct 
economy to a plant carrying on veterinary work of such character and in 
such quantity as now obtains at this College. 

POST-GRADUATE WORK. 

For many years this College has given post-graduate work, but 
this work now has been organized as a separate branch. By action 
of the Board of Education on July 15, 1913, a distinct division 
was created to be known as the Graduate Division. The President 
was designated as Acting Dean, but one who can give considerable 
time to this work should be appointed to this position, and he should 
be a specialist in one of the leading lines of technical work con¬ 
ducted at this College and in demand by graduate students. The 
increase in enrollment is chiefly in agricultural lines. 

The importance of developing graduate work is felt especially 
in connection with the training of investigators for experiment 
station work and teachers for college work. Already some of the 
leading institutions of the country are discriminating against can¬ 
didates for such positions who have not earned an advanced de¬ 
gree. More and more also we are to feel the demand for post¬ 
graduate study from persons who are to enter into practical work 
but wish first to fit themselves as highly trained specialists in the 
different phases of agriculture, engineering, home economics, in¬ 
dustrial science and veterinary medicine. 


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The graduate work is given by members of the regular college 
faculty and thus far they have been able to carry the additional 
work without materially increasing the cost. A few graduate 
students have a decided effect in stimulating both undergraduates 
and teachers to their best efforts. 

SUB-COLLEGIATE WORK. 

The two-year sub-collegiate courses are making it possible for 
the facilities of the College to be used by a great many people who 
are entitled to this consideration and who will make good return 
to the State for the cost they incur. These courses should' be 
further developed and made more widely known. 

Gradually the introduction of vocational work into high schools 
will duplicate or replace certain phases of work given in these two 
year sub-collegiate courses, but it is doubtful if high schools ever 
can give the equivalent of work offered in a special two year course 
at a strictly technical institution. 

The College is frequently urged to offer to students in the two- 
year sub-collegiate courses a limited amount of additional work 
which will enable them to qualify for teachers’ positions in rural 
schools and schools of higher grade which do not require their 
teachers to be college graduates. 

IN AGRICULTURE. 

The two-year course in agriculture is becoming better known and it 
is believed it is destined to greatly increase in enrollment and service. 
This course is intended primarily for young men who have finished the 
eighth grade but have not graduated from an accredited high school and, 
therefore, are not eligible for admission to the four-year courses. Other 
provision is made for those who are eligible for admission to the four-year 
courses and can remain in college only two years. The work in the two- 
year sub-collegiate course is very strong on the practical side but theory 
is given proper emphasis. There is now an abundance of evidence to 
prove the value of this work. The students are given every facility to 
advance themselves, and any student in this course, as in other courses, 
who is thoroughly in earnest will find that he is respected and will be 
assisted by his fellow students as well as by the faculty. Some of the 
most industrious students in the College are registered in the two-year 
course in agriculture. They are a credit to themselves and their com¬ 
munities and this institution. The records show that these young men 
as a rule return to their farms and put into practice what they have 
learned. About 99 per cent of the two-year students in agriculture are 
planning to live on farms. 


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A separate building with suitable class rooms, laboratories, apd equip¬ 
ment should be provided for this work. Secondary schools of agriculture, 
similar to our two-year course, are in successful operation in Kansas, 
Nebraska, Minnesota, and several other states. It is not the purpose 
of these schools to serve as preparatory schools for college entrance, but 
to fit young people for practical and successful rural life. 

The one-year course in dairying is maintaining its high standard. 

IN HOME MAKING. 

This course was given for the first time in 1913-14 as the result of 
special provision made by the last general assembly. Through it the 
Division of Home Economics is able to give much practical instruction 
on household problems to women who have not completed a high school 
course but have finished the eighth grade. The work has made a favorable 
beginning and doubtless will show rapid development if well supported. 

As to the purpose of the course, Dean MacKay states that it aims to 
dignify all occupations of the home by placing them upon a scientific 
and aesthetic basis, preparing girls for the duties and responsibilities of 
the home, giving them a broader view of life and a knowledge and train¬ 
ing that will enable them to meet home conditions in a thoroughly prac¬ 
tical and capable manner. It is possible for those who complete this 
course to use their education to some definite purpose. The training is 
such that young women will be able to obtain positions as tea room 
managers, institutional workers, dressmakers, milliners, designers and 
demonstrators. 

Each subject is planned in progressive sequence throughout the four 
semesters. A high standard of work is maintained. A systematic and 
proportionate use of time for study is insisted upon. 

Most of the work in this course is given in the home economics, science 
and agricultural divisions. Work offered in agriculture includes small 
fruits, vegetables, landscape gardening and dairying. 

The need of a practice house for laboratory work in this course is felt 
keenly. Additional class rooms and sewing and cooking laboratory space 
also are needed because of increased enrollment. 

IN ENGINEERING AND TRADE SCHOOL WORK. 

Instruction of this character for young men who have finished the 
eighth grade but not an accredited high school course was started in the 
year 1913-14 as the result of an enactment by the last general assembly. 
The work is new and offers great promise, especially to many young men 
in cities and towns who wish to acquire a useful vocation. These courses 
will naturally become the culmination of a State system of industrial 
education with further development of vocational work in the schools, as 
is now provided for. Students taking these courses are expected to be 
prepared for such positions as surveyors, road makers, mechanical and 
structural draftsmen, electricians, stationary engineers, construction and 
shop foremen and expert mechanics. After a year or two of experience 
courses of study can be laid down which will best meet the requirements. 
It is a new field of work in this State and a little time is necessary to 
develop it along the most efficient lines. 


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SUMMER. SESSION. 

The Summer Sessions in 1913 and 1914 were successful from the 
standpoint of both instruction given and enrollment. These courses 
are helping to meet a great need, especially on the part of school 
teachers throughout the State who, under the provision of a law 
enacted by the last General Assembly, must prepare themselves to 
teach agriculture, trade school work and home economics. Some 
college courses are repeated in the Summer Session for the benefit 
of students who wish to get ahead in their work or make up short¬ 
ages. Effort has been made in the Summer Session to hold down 
expenses for the students and with considerable success. Some 
families maintained camps on 'the border of the campus where a 
camping site is provided. 

The enrollment in the Summer Session of 1914 was 618 as com¬ 
pared with 215 in 1913 and 128 in 1912. The 1914 enrollment 
represented 92 counties of Iowa. In the 1914 enrollment 419 were 
women, of whom 298 were in the grade and rural teachers’ course, 
25 were in the home makers’ course and 96 in college credit 
courses; and 199 were men, of whom 10 were in the grade and 
rural teachers’ course and 189 in college credit courses. The 
enrollment in 1914 included 37 school superintendents, 18 prin¬ 
cipals, 74 high school teachers, 308 grade and rural teachers, 150 
college students, 5 college instructors and 19 farmers and house¬ 
keepers. In 1913 the enrollment included 55 superintendents, 
40 high school teachers, 45 grade and rural teachers, 65 college 
students and 10 farmers and housekeepers. 

In the Summer Session, emphasis is placed on the industrial sub¬ 
jects—agriculture, trade school work and home economics. A lim¬ 
ited amount of work is given in other subjects to accommodate 
persons who are here to take one or more lines of technical work. 
Most of the Summer Session work is given in the divisions of 
agriculture and industrial science but the engineering division con¬ 
tributes important courses in manual training and engineering 
drawing. About 150 men and women, mostly teachers, were en¬ 
rolled in manual training in 1914. The facilities of the engineer¬ 
ing division are capable of accommodating a much larger number 
if teachers are provided. An interesting feature of the Summer 
Session is the conferences held during its progress. These are 
related especially to country life affairs. 


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The Summer Session has been limited to six weeks. In order to 
meet the demands that will be made next year, and doubtless an¬ 
nually, the session should continue at least twelve weeks with 
provision to enroll students for the first or a latei* six weeks 
period. This will necessitate a larger appropriation but it will 
make it possible for a great many more teachers to get the benefits 
of the work and prepare themselves as the recent legislation re¬ 
quires. 

The faculty of the Summer Session each year was appointed 
chiefly from the regular college faculty with the addition of a few 
experts from other institutions. 

The Summer Session Council which was created by the Board 
of Education in December, 1913, has general supervision of the 
work. It is composed of the president, the deans of the divisions 
cooperating (agriculture, engineering, home economics and in¬ 
dustrial science), and the director. Professor G. M. Wilson, head 
of the department of agricultural education, serves as director. 
He points out that while the student enrollment increased about 
188% from 1913 to 1914, the cost per student fell from about 
$36.50 in 1913 to about $19.50 in 1914, owing to economies that 
could be effected with the larger classes. 

Director Wilson also calls special attention to the very large increase 
of enrollment of rural and grade teachers. This is in part due to the 
action of the Board of Education whereby free tuition is allowed rural 
and grade teachers. This action was taken to make the tuition charges 
here conform to the general practice of the State. 

Work for these teachers’ courses was given in accordance with the 
rules of the State Board of Examiners requiring that courses in agri¬ 
culture, manual training and home economics be offered for the entire 
six weeks period. As supplementary work, a limited amount of instruc¬ 
tion was given in the common branches, didactics and in the first grade 
certificate subjects. 

Instruction in connection with the model school, which was given to 
teachers only as supplementary to vocational courses, proved to be popu¬ 
lar with the pupils, all of whom came from the vicinity, as well as with 
the teachers. Vocational training was included with other subjects for 
the pupils. In a large way the school served as a model for rural and 
grade work. 

It is interesting to note that in the rural and grade teachers’ course 
there was a very general selection of industrial subjects, while the 
selection of common school and first grade certificate subjects was scat¬ 
tered and there was relatively a small number in these latter courses. 

College credit courses were offered in 1914 in several departments. 
Because of pressure from the State Department and the recommendation 
of the Educational Council of the State Teachers’ Association, many 


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teachers preparing for high school work enrolled in College credit courses 
instead of in the general courses. This increased the enrollment in Col¬ 
lege credit work which was as follows, by departments: 


Agricultural education . 76 

Agricultural engineering . 19 

Animal husbandry . 116 

Bacteriology . 21 

Botany . 23 

Chemistry . 61 

Dairy . 13 

Economics . 13 

English . 36 


Farm crops . 95 

Home economics. 56 

Horticulture . 35 

Mathematics . 11 

Mechanical engineering . 48 

Physics . 15 

Poultry . 12 

Psychology . .... 27 

Soils . 40 


The high character of the students’ work in the Summer Session was 
commented upon by the instructors. A study of grades made in the 
summer and corresponding grades in the regular college year seemed 
to show conclusively that the Summer Session work is thoroughly well 
done. 

Much good should come from the rural life conferences held in con¬ 
nection with the Summer Sessions. The attendance was 77 in 1913. In 
1912 it was 20. In 1913 Professor T. N. Carver, of Harvard University, 
gave daily lectures on rural economics. Many Summer Session students 
attended these lectures and others given by agricultural experts. Local 
ministers were especially helpful in developing the rural life conferences. 
United States Commissioner of Education, P. P. Claxton, was a speaker 
at this conference in 1914. 

Examinations for teachers’ certificates were held at the College each 
year. In 1913, 13 teachers took the June examination and 27 the July 
examination. In 1914, 121 took the examination in June. Director Wilson 
calls attention to the fact that the legislation regarding vocational work 
in schools is only one phase in a general movement looking toward the 
modification of courses of study and the more general introduction of the 
useful vocational studies into the common school curricula. 

In connection with the summer work excurisons are arranged, general 
lectures are provided and a few social functions are held. 


WINTER COURSES. 


The service and value of the winter courses in agriculture are 
well known throughout the State. The work is both educational 
and inspiring. It is given during the winter vacation when reg¬ 
ular college students are at their homes; thus the whole equipment 
of the college is available. The agricultural courses have included 
work in home economics. In the winter of 1913-14, similar courses 
were given for the first time in certain lines of engineering work 
and trades work. These courses could he extended to the great 
advantage of many people who would profit by a little additional 
technical training. 























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IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS. 

The short winter courses in agriculture have been continued as usual. 
The last one extended from December 29, 1913, to January 9, 1914. It 
included instruction in Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Poultry, Dairying,. 
Horticulture, Soils, Agricultural Engineering, Home Economics and 
Botany. All who come with a real desire to learn are admitted to these 
short courses and the attendance includes men and women, boys and 
girls. Sometimes father and mother and children come together. Instruc¬ 
tion is given chiefly through lectures and practical exercises in the 
laboratories and stock judging pavilions. The class work is scheduled 
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, except Sunday, and educational programs 
are provided for most of the evenings. Some of these evening programs 
are in charge of agricultural associations which hold their meetings 
during the short course period. 

Registration in the last two short courses was as follows: 


1912- 13 . 691 

1913- 14 . 658 


Special Silo Schools were held in 1912-13, which were attended by 73 
persons. 

IN ENGINEERING AND THE TRADES. 

An innovation was made during the holidays in 1913-14 in the start¬ 
ing of short courses for persons engaged in engineering work and the 
trades. The subjects and dates of these courses were as follows: 

General Engineering Subjects. .Dec. 29, 1913 to Jan. 9, 1914 

Highway Engineering.Dec. 29, 1913, to Jan. 7, 1914 

Interior Painters and Decorators.Jan. 6 to 9, 1914 

The number in attendance at each was as follows: 

General Engineering Subjects. 51 

Highway Engineering . 81 

Interior Painters and Decorators. 57 

Total . 189 

These courses were the result of action by the last General Assembly 
which made definite provision for starting engineering and trade school 
extension and short courses in connection with the work of this College. 
The need of such courses cannot be questioned. Their popularity seems 
to have been established by this effort. 

The painters were a high type of men, ambitious to learn the best 
and they spent their time most diligently. A resolution adopted by the 
Master House Painters and Decorators of the United States and Canada 
at their meeting in Cincinnati, in March, 1913, shows the feeling of this 
craft towards their special short course work. It is as follows: 

It was moved and seconded that the president and faculty of the Iowa 
State College be commended on their advanced progressiveness in the 
matter of educating the young men in the building trades', and that we, the 
International Association of Master House Painters and Decorators of the 
Unted States and Canada, send them fraternal greetings, with the desire 
that every effort put forth by them will be successful, and that we stand 
ready and willing to furnish every aid of whatsoever description possible 
toward the success of their undertaking. 










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The county engineers in their special short course found much to in¬ 
struct and interest them. One such officer who had attended every 
session regarded the short course as a big event in his life. 

IN VETERINARY MEDICINE. 

Reference to the short Veterinary Practitioners’ Course will be found 
in connection with the report on collegiate work in the Veterinary Divi¬ 
sion 


COLLEGE FUNCTIONS. 


At Commencement in 1913 the baccalaureate sermon was deliv¬ 
ered by Rev. Charles R. Henderson of Chicago University and the 
commencement address was delivered by Gov. Adolph 0. Eberhart 
of Minnesota. At Commencement in 1914 the baccalaureate ser¬ 
mon was delivered by President Henry Churchill King of Oberlin 
College and the commencement address by Dean A. W. Small of 
Chicago University. 

RELIGIOUS SERVICES. 

On account of the distance of the campus and the principal 
student residential portion of the city from the city churches 
and in order to allow our student body to hear the best min¬ 
isters of the day, the practice has long been maintained of hav¬ 
ing Sunday morning chapel services with non-resident speakers. 
All leading denominations are represented, including Protestant 
and Catholic. The services formerly were held in the chapel in 
Morrill Hall but that room was not large enough and they are now 
held in Agricultural Auditorium and a larger room should be avail¬ 
able for this purpose. The daily morning chapel services from 7 :45 
to 8 :00 are attended by from 100 to 400 students and faculty mem¬ 
bers. All these religious services are attended voluntarily. 

CONVOCATIONS. 

On rare occasions throughout the year the entire College work 
is suspended for a half hou,r or an hour and students and fac¬ 
ulty gather in the gymnasium for a special address or celebra¬ 
tion. On these occasions the speakers have been the president 
of the College, Senator W. S. Kenyon, Governor Clarke, Ex- 
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, and others. A convocation 
held March 12, 1913, was in honor of Secretary Wilson, who long 
served in the faculty of this College and was called from here by 




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President McKinley to accept a place in the President’s cabinet,. 
where he made a record for a continuous service of sixteen years as 
well as a record for his supervision of the department during a 
period of great development in agricultural affairs. This convoca¬ 
tion was attended by many notable persons of the State. It was 
followed by a banquet for the guest of honor which was provided 
for jointly by members of the faculty and business men of Ames. 

Governor Clarke spoke on “The Day’s Work of a Governor” on 
October 24, 1913. 

Other speakers who have addressed audiences at the College dur¬ 
ing the biennium are the following: 

Dr. J. M. Coulter, Head Professor of Botany, University of Chicago, 
December 13, 1912, “Relation of Science to Agriculture.” 

Dr. Herbert N. McCoy, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of 
Chicago, on “Radium and Radio-activity,” April 18, 1914, under the 
auspices of the Department of Chemistry. 

Professor C. C. Nutting, Head of the Department of ,Zoology of the 
State University of Iowa, on the “Making and Use of a Research Museum 
in Zoology,” February 28, 1913. 

Bishop Theodore Henderson, February 11, 1914. 

United States Senator Wm. S. Kenyon, November 10, 1913. 

Ex-Secretary James Wilson, March 12, 1913. 

Mayor James R. Hanna, of Des Moines, on “The Day’s Work of a 
Mayor,” May 19, 1914. 

Frederick B. Wright, of Washington, D. C„ Travelogue Lecture on 
“Children I Have Seen in Different Lands,” March 17, 1914. 

Dr. Crocker of the University of Chicago, on “Vegetable Physiology,” 
April 30, 1914. 

Plans are being made for free lectures by prominent persons to 
be given at intervals next year and at a time when students and 
faculty generally will be able to attend; These lectures will occur 
usually late in the afternoon. They will cover subjects of general 
interest and they will be 'planned so as to emphasize their educa¬ 
tional and broadening influence, often referred to as “cultural.” 

MUSIC. 

To a large extent the music events of the College are directed 
by a Music Council which is organized under special action of 
the Board of Education. Among the attractions brought to 
Ames by the council in 1913-14 was the Minneapolis Symphony 
Orchestra, which drew an audience of nearly 1800 people. This 
shows the appreciation of the community for high class music. 
A concert of this character has high value in a college community,, 
and plans are being made for more such self-supporting entertain¬ 
ments in the future. 


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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS. 

By action of the Board of Education, intercollegiate athletics 
;are under the management of the Athletic Council, which in¬ 
cludes the President of the College, who is chairman, the Treas¬ 
urer of the College, who is treasurer, the ranking professor in 
the Physical Training Department, two to four members of the 
faculty and four' students. Prom receipts from games and com 
tributions the council bears the expense of all such contests, in¬ 
cluding the expense of coaching and training 'teams for these 
purposes. State funds are not used for the support of intercol¬ 
legiate contests. The greatest emphasis is placed upon clean, hon¬ 
orable playing. This College is among the leaders in suppressing 
unfair and dishonest practices in athletics. One of the chief meth¬ 
ods by which athletic games and relationships are being improved 
is through the growing policy of leaving final authority with the 
College faculty, as has been provided for this College through the 
organization of the Athletic Council. 

ALUMNI BUREAU. 

During the biennium, the Alumni Association established a 
bureau with permanent headquarters in Alumni Hall, and with 
Professor Ward M. Jones as secretary. This bureau is render¬ 
ing valuable service to the College by maintaining a directory 
of all alumni and helping to maintain their interest in their 
Alma Mater. It means much to the alumni to have their own head¬ 
quarters where they may call for information and where they may 
meet when returning to the College. 

The measure of work done by a college is best shown by the 
Alumni. Many an institution regards its Alumni body as its 
strongest resource. In such case the Alumni are well organized 
and are enthusiastic supporters of the institution. It means much 
to this College that the Alumni are giving attention to more 
efficient organization and cooperation. 


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THE CAMPUS. 


Necessarily there are changes on the campus when an institution 
is rapidly growing and new buildings are being erected, but with 
all the changes a determined effort is being made to preserve the 
central quadrangle from encroachment and to preserve the hilly 
ground on the south side of the main campus as an attractive 
natural park. The problem of campus development has been 
studied by eminent landscape architects and, in the main, their 
reports are in harmony. So far as possible their ideas are being 
carried out, but the institution is now larger than they or perhaps 
anyone in their time supposed it could be. The further services of 
a landscape architect are now needed. Superintendent Sloss is 
entitled to much credit for his efforts to preserve the natural beauty 
of the campus. 

The trolley line has been re-located by diverting it east of the 
central power plant and carrying the track directly toward the 
veterinary buildings. This has eliminated two very sharp curves 
and makes it possible to bring locomotives to the new transporta¬ 
tion laboratory. It also vacated a site needed for the new green¬ 
houses. 

Arrangements have been made with the aid and cooperation of 
the State Board of Control for opening a road northward from the 
campus in extension of the road passing the front of the veterinary 
buildings. This road will be carried over a concrete bridge crossing 
Squaw Creek and will connect with the public road north of the 
College property. It is expected also to open a road on the south 
side of the Chicago and North-Western Railroad right of way from 
near the east line of the campus to the “north road” and later to 
extend this westward to connect with the road to Ontario near the 
northwest corner of the college grounds on the south side of the 
railroad. Another improvement made possible through the assis¬ 
tance of the Board of Control is the filling of the ditch adjacent 
to Boone street and almost directly south from the agricultural 
building. This ditch has long been a dangerous place as well as most 
unsightly. In these improvements and certain other campus im¬ 
provements the College has availed itself of convict labor, a camp 
being established, and from about twenty to fifty convicts being 
employed. From the standpoint of the College this labor was sat¬ 
isfactory. 



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BUILDINGS AND LAND. 

BUILDINGS. 

Special effort is made at all times to keep the buildings in good 
repair and clean. The newer buildings are fireproof, or prac¬ 
tically so, but in these and all others fire precautions are observed. 
Nevertheless the College suffered a heavy loss in the spring of 1913 
when the old chemistry building was totally destroyed by fire. The 
origin of the fire could not be determined. The building contained 
much wood construction and this with chemicals in almost every 
room made it impossible to successfully fight the fire, although 
streams of water were soon running and an abundant supply of 
water was available. 

The efficiency of class rooms and laboratories has been made a 
subject of study by a special faculty committee. Through their 
efforts some changes have been made in the schedule to more evenly 
distribute' the demands on building space. There is, however, in 
several departments a great shortage of class rooms and labora¬ 
tories. 

The gymnasium which was started in the previous biennium was 
finished before the close of the first year of the biennium. The 
Steam and Gas Engine Laboratory was also completed compar 
atively early in the biennium. These have afforded much needed 
space and relief. The completion of the Gymnasium has permitted 
systematic physical exercise for hundreds of young men who were 
seriously in need of it. Young men coming to college from active 
work, often out of doors, must have more or less vigorous exercise 
along with their college studies if their health is to be maintained. 
The Gymnasium furnishes a suitable meeting place for large gath¬ 
erings. Heretofore it has been impossible to get even one-half of 
the College community into the largest available room on the cam¬ 
pus. In warm weather tents have been hired for important large 
meetings such as Commencement. The Gymnasium also provides 
splendid accommodations for the State Corn Show and for various 
College social functions. 

The women’s gymnasium facilities in Margaret Hall have been 
greatly improved by constructing locker and shower bath quarters 
in the basement under the gymnasium floor. Heretofore the space 
has been unused. It required only a little excavating and some 
underpinning for the walls to make the space available for improve- 



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ment. It is hoped that a swimming tank can be provided for the 
young women students in additional space under the gymnasium 
which is available for this improvement. 

The available working space in Old Agricultural Building has 
been greatly increased also by making the basement usable, which 
has been done at small cost. 

The old building formerly occupied by the Veterinary Division, 
which has been used as a store house, has been repaired and now 
provides headquarters for the construction and repair forces of 
the College under the direction of the Superintendent of Grounds 
and Buildings, and also for their materials. 

The new Chemistry Building, which was begun in June, 1913, 
was finished in time for beginning the work of 1914-15. It is 
located north of Central Hall and just north of the trolley track. 
This building is fireproof. It has especially secure and safe storage 
for dangerous chemicals. It is built with a view to economy and 
efficiency. The plans were made after a study of plans of the best 
chemistry buildings in other States, and we believe we have secured 
the most possible for the money expended. The materials are brick, 
steel and concrete. It is as plain a building as a factory, and 
lighted and ventilated as well as possible. The new building con¬ 
tains slightly over 100,000 square feet of floor space. The cost of 
the building without equipment is approximately $250,000. It 
should be remembered that a large amount of chemistry work is 
required in the technical courses offered at this College. Next year 
approximately 1,800 students will be registered in chemistry 
courses. This large registration brings the number of square feet 
of floor space per student in the new building considerably below 
the space allowed in other institutions of the same grade, yet it 
is expected that first class work will be done. The building is a 
little larger than was intended because it was found that wing 
space planned for the future could be provided with the main con¬ 
tract at a remarkably low figure and it was considered the best 
economy to have it built at once, deferring some other building 
needed. This has resulted in making it possible to loan a limited 
amount of space in the Chemistry Building to other overcrowded 
departments. 

The locomotive and automobile testing laboratory, which is a 
shop building costing about $65,000, was practically completed dur¬ 
ing the biennium. It stands west of Engineering Annex. Acknowl¬ 
edgment is made to President Gardner of the Chicago and North- 


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101 


Western Railway Company, who arranged for Mr. R. Quayle, 
General Superintendent of Motive Power and Car Department, 
and Mr. W. E. Dunham, Supervisor of Motive Power and 
Machinery, to visit Ames and assist in completing the plans for 
this building. It is admirably adapted to instruction work such 
as a college should give in connection with locomotives and auto¬ 
mobiles, their construction, power and efficiency. In these times 
men having scientific training along the lines indicated are in 
demand. 

A new building for plant industry work, especially horticulture, 
was practically finished during the biennium at a cost of about 
$60,000. This building is located directly north of the auditorium 
of the Agricultural Building and is planned to constitute the 
southeast wing of a future building corresponding to the present 
Agricultural Building and standing about five hundred feet 
directly north of it. Attached to the building are greenhouses cov¬ 
ering, above one-half acre of ground. They will afford much needed 
space and facilities for giving instruction in plant propagation, 
plant breeding, truck gardening and commercial floriculture. The 
last two items represent very large and rapidly growing interests 
in the State. Credit for assistance in planning the greenhouses is 
given to Mr. Wesley Greene, Secretary of the State Horticultural 
Society, Mr. I. O. Kemble of Marshalltown, Mr. J. W. Dunford of 
Sioux City, Mr. C. N. Page of Des Moines, Mr. Roy P. Wilcox of 
Council Bluffs, Mr. Blaine C. Wilcox of Council Bluffs, Mr. Mer¬ 
ritt Greene of Marshalltown, and Mr. J. S. Wilson of Des Moines,, 
most of whom are engaged in greenhouse work on a large scale and 
all of whom are deeply interested in the development of this in¬ 
dustry along right lines. These gentlemen visited Ames and 
advised with members of the faculty concerning the location and 
arrangement of the new greenhouses. The location was decided 
after much careful study. It seemed to be the best from the 
standpoint of sunshine throughout the entire day as well as accessi¬ 
bility for large numbers of students who can use the greenhouses 
in this location for short periods of spare time when they could 
not do so if the building were at some distant point. This location 
also will be a convenience to the many visitors on the campus. 

The dormitory for women, to cost about $55,000, will be ready 
for occupancy about the first of January, 1915. This building, 
which is fireproof up to and including the attic floor, is a special 


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credit to the architects, Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson, because of its 
excellent arrangement and its very low average cost per occupant. 
The building is of brick and Colonial in style. It is intended to 
accommodate seventy-four young women students, but more will 
be cared for when it is possible to use in this way additional space 
in the building that will become available on account of completing 
plans to heat the building from the central beating plant instead of 
by an individual plant. The location for this building, on an 
attractive elevation across the valley southeast of the Dairy Build¬ 
ing, was determined after receiving an opinion from the Attorney 
General to the effect that it would not be necessary to place the 
building adjacent to Margaret Hall, which is not a fireproof struc¬ 
ture. The site selected seems to be ideal for a group of dormitory 
buildings for women. It is planned to make this new dormitory 
entirely self-supporting, and preliminary estimates show that this 
will be possible with reasonable charges for rooms and meals. 

The State has purchased the residences on the campus formerly 
belonging to Professor Holden and Mrs. Beardshear. The latter 
home was built after the death of President Beardshear, by his fam¬ 
ily, but they now wish to have a smaller house and it proved to be 
advantageous for the College to take this property and use it 
together with the other residence for young women students. 

The main agricultural building has been considerably relieved 
by transferring work which has been conducted in that building 
to suitable space in other buildings. The Chemical Section of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station is now well located in the new 
Chemistry Building, and the Agricultural Extension offices and 
the document rooms have been transferred to Morrill Hall. 

Another increase of equipment, which is equivalent to a labora¬ 
tory building, is the experimental farm located two miles south of 
the campus and purchased about one year ago. This farm is well 
adapted to its use for field and crop experiments and is destined 
to produce results of great value to the State. 

Inexpensive buildings have been erected a short distance north of 
the veterinary group for the manufacture of hog cholera serum. 
A somewhat more distant location would have been better but with 
the limited appropriation and other limitations it was not possible 
to build elsewhere. 

Much should be said concerning the need of new buildings. The 
increase of student enrollment produces the most urgent need. 
When this has been met the State doubtless will wish to replace 


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103 


some of the old and unsuitable buildings with others that are safer 
and better but now no building can be spared if it will protect 
from rain and cold. A temporary wooden shed of the cheapest 
construction possible was erected as an emergency building for the 
chemistry department after the old building was burned and when 
the new one was under construction. It was expected to use this 
temporary building only one year but when the chemists moved 
out of it, four urgent requests were filed by department heads who 
wished to use it, and it has been allowed to remain although it is 
not as well built a structure as many a barn or cheap warehouse 
in the State. 

New buildings which are greatly needed include the following: 
Library, auditorium, dormitories, animal husbandry building, 
science building, hospital, home economics building, dairy cattle 
bam, physics building, agricultural engineering building, poultry 
building, beef cattle barn, judging pavilion and drill hall, abattoir, 
rifle range, an addition to the dairy building and an addition to 
the veterinary buildings. 

Facilities for furnishing pure and clear water for use on the 
campus are again asked for. At the present time there is a good 
water supply but the water contains much iron and often it is as 
brown as coffee when drawn from spigots in the buildings. It is 
estimated that a settling and storage tank with filter could be pro¬ 
vided for $15,000. 

LAND. 

Additional land is needed for the following purposes: 

Dormitory space and exercise grounds near the campus. . .$35,000 
An animal husbandry farm of about 200 acres—estimated 


value of land and buildings. 60,000 

A horticultural experimental farm. 10,000 

A veterinary research farm. 32,000 


Special arguments for the buildings and land indicated will be 
found in connection with the tabulated statement of askings and 
in connection with the reports on educational work. 





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EQUIPMENT. 


Reference should be made to the Secretary’s report for a full 
statement of equipment of the College. 

With the appropriations available for equipment it has been 
impossible to replace that which should be discarded because of 
age or poor condition and increase the equipment in proportion 
to the demands of the increased number of students. A liberal 
increase of the appropriation for equipment is recommended. Espe¬ 
cially is this increase needed because of the loss of equipment* in 
the Chemistry Building fire. As the State does not carry insur¬ 
ance on its property it becomes necessary to replace the chemistry 
equipment from State appropriations. The purchase of much 
department equipment has been postponed by necessity of getting 
equipment for new buildings, which has drawn heavily upon the 
limited funds. Although there are many urgent needs at this time 
only two others will be mentioned here: Books for the Library 
and live stock. A considerable fund could be used to advantage 
in respect to both of these kinds of equipment. 

It is a pleasure to record the gift of an oil painting portrait of 
President S. A. Knapp from the Class of 1884. At present this 
hangs in the President’s Office but it is hoped that when a new 
Library Building is erected a better place may be provided. A sim¬ 
ilar gift is acknowledged from the family of Professor Isaac P. 
Roberts, who was in charge of the agricultural work for a period 
in the early days of the College. It is planned also that this por¬ 
trait will occupy a prominent position in a permanent College 
building. 



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105* 


ADMINISTRATIVE WORK. 


While all administrative matters are subject to the approval of 
the Board of Education, there are many which need not be con¬ 
sidered by the Board because they are merely incident to carrying 
out policies already established. The President’s Office is the chief 
administrative office of the College but a large volume of work is 
handled elsewhere. 

The Secretary’s Office serves as a college auditing office and 
keeps records concerning available funds, bills, expenditures, and 
balances. This office also keeps records of meetings of the Board 
of Education and the Finance Committee in so far as matters are 
transacted which relate to this College. In the same office the 
work of the Junior Dean is cared for. This involves close scrutiny 
of class standings of all freshman and sophomore students and 
personal conferences with such students as need individual atten¬ 
tion on account of the character of their records. The Junior Dean 
also classifies or assigns to classes all freshman and sophomore 
students. This has become an intricate and difficult task because 
of the necessity of keeping classes filled to the proper number and 
yet not overcrowded and because of the many conflicts that occur 
in the schedules of students. 

The Treasurer’s Office cares for all funds and is comparable 
with a bank. Funds are received and paid out as directed by the 
Finance Committee, the Board of Education, or, in certain routine 
and emergency matters, as directed by the Secretary’s Office. The 
Treasurer’s Office serves also as the registration office for the Col¬ 
lege. All students are listed here. The Purchasing Committee 
for the College is associated with the Treasurer ’s Office. This com¬ 
mittee is charged with the responsibility of issuing orders for sup¬ 
plies and securing bids when the order is of sufficient importance. 

The deans of the various divisions and the dean and vice-dean of 
the Junior College with the President constitute the Board of 
Deans, which meets weekly. This body does not legislate but takes 
under consideration the uniform administration of policies and 
rules throughout the entire institution. As stated elsewhere, the- 
Faculty is the legislative body for the College. 



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One of the pleasant functions of the President’s Office is to 
receive visitors. It is worthy of note that in June, 1913, Dr. Lauro 
Muller, the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by 
military and naval aides representing the Brazilian and the United 
States governments, spent a day at the College with a view to get¬ 
ting suggestions for the development of educational work in Brazil. 
And in June, 1914, about sixty prominent eastern advertising men 
started a tour of Iowa by visiting this College. On account of the 
difficulty in securing special railroad rates, the College does not 
have as many excursions as in former years, yet very many visitors 
come to the campus throughout the year. In April, 1914, 318 Clay 
County farmers and their families visited the College. 

The clerical work in the administrative offices is increasing rap¬ 
idly, as would be expected on account of the increasing enroll¬ 
ment and campus developments. The College has been very eco¬ 
nomical in respect to this kind of service but some increases should 
be made in the near future. It is likely also that ways will have 
to be devised to relieve some of the administrative officers from 
the details which they are now forced to carry, to the detriment 
of more important duties which they should perform. 

The supervision of the campus and the College buildings is in 
charge of the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, who 
reports directly to the President. The superintendent also has 
supervision of the College heating plant and the workmen em¬ 
ployed on the campus for general purposes, including janitor 
work in the buildings. 

The College Hospital is supported by a reservation of two dollars 
from the incidental fee of each student. A physician and trained 
nurse are in constant attendance. In February and March, 1914, 
there were several mild cases of small pox which led to the required 
vaccination of all persons in the College who had not been thus 
protected. The hospital is rendering a most important service.as 
indicated by its report for the last two years on the number of 
cases handled, which is as follows: 

1912-13 1913-14 


Total number of bed cases. 264 367 

Total number of dispensary cases. 16,401 21,311 

Total . 16,665 21,678 


In 1912-13 there was one fatal case (typhoid), and in 1913-14 
one fatal case (pneumonia). 







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107 


A new hospital is urgently needed. Last year there were times 
when more than a score of students were obliged to remain in their 
boarding houses when they should have been cared for at the hos¬ 
pital. 

The official publications of the College include the following: 

Catalogue, college directory, and publications giving information in 
regard to the College and its courses of instruction. 

Bulletins of the experiment stations. 

Bulletins of the extension departments. 


FINANCES. 


The financial operations of the College are given in detail in the 
reports of the Secretary and Treasurer. The State appropriations 
which will be available in 1913-14 for regular teaching work at the 
College and for equipment, maintenance of equipment, improve¬ 
ments and contingent requirements are as follows: 


Acts and Purposes 

Educational 
work at 
Ames 

Equipment, 
repairs, 
improve¬ 
ments, etc. 

212—1 —32—1907—Support. _ 

$ 135,000 

20,000 


213—1—32—1907—Additional support 


212—1—32—1907—Rnrtlf and periodicals 

$ 2,400 

23,000 

212—1—32—1907—Contingent and repair. _ _ __ 


24-4— 9 —33—1009—Additional support. 

15,000 

244—2—33—1909 1 —Repair, minor improvement and contingent . 

13,000 

2,500 

244— 2 —33—1909—Library book fund ___ . 


200—3—34—1911 — Addition a 1 support. 

25,000 

50,000 

25,000 

125,000 

200—3—34—1911 — Add.ition a 1 .support 


200—3—34—1911—Two year Agricultural course__ 


228—2—33—1913—Mi 11 age tax including— 

Additional support of collegiate departments 
Repair and contingent_ _ _ • 

io’ooo 

10,000 

10,000 

40,000 

Maintenance and improvement of grounds_ 


Enlargement of buildings and small addi¬ 
tional hnildings 


Equipment of departments and buildings_ 


Two and four year home wonoTmifs 

20.000 

5,000 

12,500 

Veterinary practitioners'’ short course 


One and two year non-collegiate courses_ 

Totals 



$ 432,500 

$ 110,900 



National funds, including endowment funds, available for educational 
work amount to practically $85,000.00. 

A one-fifth mill state tax provides a fund which is used for the con¬ 
struction and equipment of buildings. 






































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It is desirable to emphasize that a large part of the appropri¬ 
ations made to the College are for the support of other lines of 
work than teaching at the College. These are referred to else¬ 
where. The error is frequently made of assuming that Experiment 
Station funds and all other money appropriated for the College are 
used for regular instruction work. 

The administrative officers of the College and the Finance Com¬ 
mittee of the Board have found it difficult during the past year to 
care for needed expenditures, and the pressure became so heavy 
that a few weeks before the end of the fiscal year it became neces¬ 
sary to revoke all Educational Support Funds which had been 
allotted to the different departments, but not already expended, in 
order that this money might be used as was most urgently de¬ 
manded on account of caring for the increased enrollment of stu¬ 
dents. Similar action was taken in reference to Equipment Funds. 

The financial needs are stated elsewhere. It is obvious that the 
College should have as much support as it is now receiving and an 
additional amount because of its growth. The increase of educa¬ 
tional funds being recommended is with a view to making the 
teaching staff, equipment and other facilities suitable for the pres 
ent demands. If this is done it is believed that the faculty will 
gladly take care of the additional students who come during the 
next biennium as has been done during the last biennium. The 
developments taking place in other states, including liberal funds 
raised by special millage taxes, offer additional reason for liberal¬ 
ity to these educational needs in Iowa, whose young men and 
young women should have the best possible opportunities. 

Respectfully Submitted, 

R. A. Pearson, 

President.. 


INDUSTRIAL SERVICE, INCLUDING EXPERIMEN¬ 
TAL AND EXTENSION WORK; RECOM¬ 
MENDATIONS AND REPORTS. 


LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 


IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
AND MECHANIC ARTS. 


To the Iowa State Board of Education: 

Gentlemen—I have the honor to submit to you herewith recom¬ 
mendations for appropriations for industrial service, including 
experimental and extension work, at and from the Iowa State Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the biennium July 1, 
1915, to June 30, 1917. Also, I hand you herewith my report on 
such work in the biennium July 1, 1912, to June 30, 1914. 


Ames, Iowa, 
September 23, 1914. 


Very respectfully, 

R. A. Pearson, 

President. 





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APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED FOR INDUS¬ 
TRIAL SERVICE, INCLUDING EXPERIMEN¬ 
TAL AND EXTENSION WORK 

IN THE BIENNIUM JULY 1, 1915, TO JUNE 30, 1917. 


A. Present Appropriations to Be Continued Annually. 

Note—These items are referred to in connection with list of askings 
for educational items provided by millage tax. Their renewal does not 
represent an increase, but will provide for continuation of work on the 
present basis. 

B. Additional Maintenance for Industrial Service, Including Ex¬ 

perimental and Extension Work Annually, Beginning July 
1 , 1915 . 

Appropriations for experiment station work, investigations, and ex¬ 
tension work are in the interest of protection of property, discoveries 
and the development of the natural resources of the State. Such ex¬ 
penditures are returned many fold to the wealth of the State. Large 
sums can be used to advantage. The following items indicate some of 
the more pressing needs along these lines: 

1. Agricultural Experiment Station. 

New problems continually arise on the farms and affect the welfare of 
the entire State. Perhaps the greatest of these for a number of years is 
a new disease of the corn plant. The value of the annual corn crop of Iowa is 
over two hundred million dollars. Experts estimate that the value was reduced 
by at least ten million dollars by the mysterious corn disease or diseases which 
were found scattered over a considerable area of the state in the season of 
1914. Another great economic problem is furnished by the ravages of the 
Hessian fly. Other serious problems are awaiting satisfactory solution, and 
vast amounts of money and values in property are at stake. Studies of such 
problems cannot be properly undertaken with the current funds of the experi¬ 
ment station and an additional appropriation of at least $50,000 could be used 
profitably. With this addition, the funds for agricultural experimental work in 
Iowa will still be less than the funds in several other states, including Illinois, 
Minnesota, California, Ohio, and Kentucky. 

2. Engineering Experiment Station. 

The efficient combustion of Iowa coal, the study of water supply and sewage 
disposal, the investigation of drainage, and road problems are questions need¬ 
ing attention, and their solution means hundreds of thousands of dollars to the 
state in the saving of waste and protection of health. An appropriation of at 
least $16,000 would permit work to be started and enlarged along the lines 
indicated. 


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111 


3. Veterinary Investigations. 

New animal diseases frequently appear. These sometimes cause enormous 
losses. Complications have now appeared in connection with hog cholera. Two 
other new and threatening animal diseases have appeared in the state, not 
including foot and mouth disease. Live stock worth four hundred million dol¬ 
lars is concerned. Fifteen thousand dollars would provide for additional experts 
and the investigation of live stock maladies on a more satisfactory scale. 

4. Agricultural and Home Economics Extension. 

During the biennum, $53,250 will become available from the United States 
government for extension work in agriculture and home economics, provided 
the state equals these appropriations, under provisions of the Smith-Lever law. 
The amount required, therefore, would be $26,625 each year of the biennium. 
The funds appropriated by the State, as well as those from the federal govern¬ 
ment, are to be administered by the State College in accordance with plans 
approved by both the United States government and the College. It will be neces¬ 
sary, however, for the State legislature to formally accept the appropriations 
from the United States government and the general terms of the law directing 
their expenditure for agriculture and home economics. Such acceptance has 
been given already by the Governor of the State pending action by the Legis¬ 
lature. Increased appropriations from nation and State also would permit in¬ 
creasing the valuable work being done by county experts stationed throughout 
the State. It would permit further extension of agricultural and home economics 
knowledge through the usual lines and by correspondence courses, and especially 
it would permit home economics work to be carried on in connection with 
engineering extension work already provided for. 

5. Engineering Extension. 

Large numbers of young men in cities and towns, as well as many young 
women, would be glad of an opportunity to improve themselves along engineer¬ 
ing or trade school lines by aid of correspondence courses, similar to the work 
which has been carried on with great success in Wisconsin. Courses in the 
trades are being called for, and enough of this work has been given to prove 
its popularity and value. Such courses are offered at points throughout the 
State and are comparable with the agricultural short courses. Additional in¬ 
struction is needed also in manual training for schools. An appropriation of 
$15,000 would make it possible to develop these useful lines of work. 

6. Serum Production. 

Attention is invited to the question as to whether the hog cholera serum plant 
should be enlarged. The law passed by the Thirty-fifth General Assembly to 
provide for the manufacture of hog cholera serum, also requires certain execu¬ 
tive work in connection with serum made elsewhere; it would seem a special 
appropriation for this work should be made rather than to require it to be 
supported from income from the manufacture of serum. 


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REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL SERVICE WORK, IN¬ 
CLUDING EXPERIMENTAL AND EXTENSION 
WORK, IN THE BIENNIUM JULY 1, 1912, 

TO JUNE 30, 1914. 


EXPERIMENTAL WORK. 

The chief developments of the biennium in experimental work 
were the establishment of the new experimental farm, and the 
beginning of veterinary investigations, especially in reference to 
hog cholera, as provided for by the Thirty-fifth General Assembly. 

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 

That the Agricultural Experiment Station is appreciated by the 
people of the State is shown by their requests for advice and their 
urgent appeals for help when a pest or other trouble which is new 
and not understood presents itself. The Corn Belt Meat Producers’ 
Association in December, 1913, passed a resolution commending the 
practical work done at the Experiment Station in reference to feed¬ 
ing and management of cattle, hogs, and sheep. And they ex¬ 
pressed their particular interest in continuing this work to include 
» # # 
the production cost of calves raised on Iowa’s high priced land, 

with a view to demonstrating the possibilities of profitable beef 
production in this part of the corn belt and with the marked change 
of land values. 

The newest and largest problem, apparently, that has come to 
the Experiment Station is a peculiar condition of corn, which indi¬ 
cates a disease of the corn stalk. With this affection, the corn 
stalks are easily broken at the joints and much of the corn is down. 
The disease has been found in central, western and southern Iowa. 
How much farther it has extended is not known. The trouble 
locally, generally, has been attributed to worms or windstorms, but 
expert investigation has convinced the farmers concerned that these 
causes were not responsible. It appears that the trouble may be 
a combination of fungous diseases. One fungus attacks the roots, 
causing them to become red and decomposed; another attacks the 



EXPERIMENTAL WORK. 


113 


joints, breaking down the pith and cansing the plant to break off. 
The losses due to this disease in 1914 are estimated to considerably 
exceed ten millions of dollars. Mnch careful work will have to be 
done in the laboratory and in the field to determine the life history 
of the fungi and conditions affecting them. 

The importance of further studying the soil fertility problem 
has been strongly emphasized. This subject becomes more im¬ 
portant each year because of the heavy losses being incurred under 
our system of farming. In the Mississippi Valley farmers are 
doing what was done in New England, New York, and other East¬ 
ern states years ago. They are -decreasing their wealth of plant 
food. They are not putting into the soil as much as is taken out. 
This subject should receive far more attention than it is now 
getting. Attention is invited to statements concerning the impor¬ 
tance of agricultural experiment station work and recommenda¬ 
tions as published in the last biennial report of the Board of Edu¬ 
cation. 

The following is from the reports of Director Curtiss for the two 
years of the biennium: 

Investigations were completed and publications issued, as follows: 

Agronomy: Bulletins numbers—133, Growing Winter Wheat in Iowa; 135, The 
Germination Test of Seed Corn; 137, Alfalfa Management in Iowa; 138, Silver 
King, A Corn for Northern Iowa; 150, The Fertility of Iowa Soils; 150 (popular 
edition.) The Fertility of Iowa Soils. Research Bulletins numbers—8, Bacteria 
at Different Depths in Some Typical Iowa Soils; 9, Amino Acids and Acid 
Amides as Sources of Ammonia in Soils; 11, Methods for Bacteriological Exami¬ 
nation of Soils; 13, Bacteriological Studies of Field Soils III, the Effects of 
Barn-Yard Manure. 

Dairy: Bulletins numbers—134, Bacteria and Ice Cream; 139, Creamery 
Organization and Construction; 140, Lacto, A Frozen Dairy Product. Research 
bulletins numbers—14, The specific Heat of Milk and Milk Derivatives; 15, A 
Bacteriological Study of Blue Milk. 

Chemistry: Research Bulletins numbers—7, The Volatile Aliphatic Acids of 
Corn Silage; 12, Chemical Studies of Lime-Sulphur, Lead Arsenate Spray Mix¬ 
ture ; 10, Lactic Acid in Corn Silage. 

Horticulture and Forestry: Bulletins numbers—127, Spraying Practice for 
Orchard and Garden; 142, The Wood-Using Industries of Iowa; 144, Cold 
Storage for Iowa Grown Apples; 148, Effect of Potato Scab Treatment on Seed 
Vitality; 149, Better Methods of Potato Production for Iowa. 

Agricultural Engineering: Bulletins numbers—139, Creamery Organization 
and Construction (in cooperation with Dairy Section) ; 141, Modern Silo Con¬ 
struction. 

Animal Husbandry: Bulletins numbers—136, Forage Crops for Swine; 143, 
Hogging-Down Corn. 

Botany: Bulletins numbers—145, The Effect of City Smoke on Vegetation; 
146, Iowa Seed Analyses, 1910-1913. 

Entomology: Bulletins numbers—147, the Codling Moth in Iowa. 

Circulars were issued as follows: 

No. 2, Liming Iowa Soils (Reprint). 

No. 3, Growing Alfalfa in Iowa. 

No. 4, Good Seed Corn for 1913. 


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No. 5, Unlawful Iowa Weeds and Their Extermination. 

No. 6. Feeding Corn Silage to Farm Animals. 

No. 7, Bacteria and Soil Fertility. 

No. 8, Inoculation of Legumes. 

No. 9, Farm Manures. 

No. 10, Green. Manuring and Soil Fertility. 

No. 11, Smut in Small Grains. 

No. 12, Soiling Crops to Supplement Iowa Pastures. 

No. 13, Potatoes. 

No. 14, Some Common Internal Parasites (Worms) of Hogs and Their 
Treatment. 

No. 15, Testing Soils in Laboratory and Field. 

No. 16, Care, Feed and Management of the Dairy Herd. 

No. 17, Rearing Chicks Successfully. 

No. 18, Iowa 403, A. New Seedling Apple. 

Press Bulletins were issued as follows: 

No. 33, The Variegated Cutworm. 

No. 34, Soil Experiment Fields for Iowa. 

No. 35, Tuberculosis in Farm Poultry. 

The above publications include 1,366 pages and the total number of 
copies in all editions exceeded 800,000, representing about ten million 
printed pages for each year of the biennium. 

A large amount of material, showing results of investigations com¬ 
pleted during the biennium awaits publication, and many other investiga¬ 
tions are in progress. A valuable line of experiments is being conducted 
with the United States Department of Agriculture in reference to im- 
provments of cereal and forage crops, farm tenantry, and soil survey 
work. Co-operative experiments are being conducted also with many 
individual farmers throughout the State. 

On March 1, 1914, the station came into possession of a 160-acre farm, 
situated about one mile south of the Dairy Farm. This tract of land 
will be used for field experimental work of the Farm Crops and Soils 
Sections. The greater portion of the farm has already been laid out in 
experimental plots. Forty acres will be devoted to Soils investigations 
and the remainder of the area will be used for various Farm Crops in¬ 
vestigations, with special reference to cereal breeding, alfalfa growing, 
variety and cultural tests, etc. 

The removal of the greater part of the Soils and Farm Crops field 
experiments from the College Farm to the new Agronomy Experiment 
Farm has made it possible to transfer fifteen acres of land to the Truck 
Crops Section. This tract will enable this section to carry on some im¬ 
portant investigations which have been handicapped, to some extent, 
heretofore, by a lack of land. 

During the summer of 1914, two barns on the Agronomy Experiment 
Farm were completely rebuilt and enlarged. An appropriation was also 
made for the erection of a small office and laboratory building on this 
farm. This structure will be used until more adequate buildings can 
be provided. 

A thorough drainage system has been planned for the farm referred 
to above, and an appropriation made to install a portion of the system. 

During the year extensive improvements were made on the Dairy 
Building. These will prove distinctly helpful from the standpoint of the 
work of the Dairy Section. 


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The new plant laboratory and greenhouses which are under construc¬ 
tion are notable additions to the building equipment of the experiment 
station. The plant laboratory has a cellar, basement, ground floor, and 
first floor. Opening from this laboratory on the south is a range of 
greenhouses of modern construction, covering an area of about one-half 
acre. It is expected that the greenhouses will be ready for occupancy 
early in the fall of 1914. 

In the cellar is to be installed a cold storage room for cut flowers, and 
six refrigeration rooms for the use of the college and experiment station 
work in truck crops and pomology. The basement floor includes three 
plant propagation laboratories. The ground floor and first floor will be 
used in part for laboratories for the college work and in part for experi¬ 
ment station laboratories and offices. 

The Chemical Section has been provided with commodious quarters 
in the new Chemistry Building. This change in location will give this 
section more adequate office and laboratory facilities. 

Changes in the Staff. 

Comparatively few changes in the staff are to be noted for the bien¬ 
nium. The following resignations were accepted: 

1912- 13—M. L. King, Assistant Chief in Agricultural Engineering's. L. 
Jodidi, Assistant Chief in Soil Chemistry; H. C. Cosgriff, Field Superintend¬ 
ent ; H. B. Kinney, Assistant in Soils; F. N. Marcellus, Assistant Chief in 
Poultry Husbandry; E. J. Strausbaugh, Herdsman. 

1913- 14—Arthur W Griffin, Assistant Chief in Agricultural Engineering; 
Charles R. Forest, Field Superintendent; E. H. Kellogg, Assistant in Soil 
Chemistry; George S. Tilley, Assistant Chief in Dairy; W. E. Ruth, Assistant 
in Chemistry. 

The following appointments were made: 

1912- 13—Arthur W. Griffin, Assistant Chief in Agricultural Engineering; 
Charles R. Fores}:, Field Superintendent; Geo. M. Turpin, Assistant Chief in 
Poultry Husbandry; D. B. Adams, Herdsman; W. E. Ruth, Assistant in 
Chemistry 

1913- 14—C. W. Porter, Assistant in Agricultural Engineering; R. S. Potter, 
Assistant in Soil Chemistry; F. B. Howe, Assistant in Soil Survey; M. E. Sar, 
Assistant in Soil Survey ; M. E. Olson, Field Superintendent; P. L,. Blumenthal, 
Assistant in Chemistry; George S. Tilley, Assistant Chief in Dairy. 

The station staff did not lose even one chief of a division during the 
year. The total list of resignations from the staff is small. On the other 
hand, the organization has been strengthened by the addition of a Chief 
in Farm Management and a number of well trained assistants. 

The station is in closer touch with the agricultural problems of the 
State than ever before. The different sections are carrying on a very 
large number of cooperative experiments with farmers, county agents, 
and other parties. This work has the endorsement of those in touch 
with it and it gives promise of rendering a distinct and valuable service 
to the crop, live stock and horticultural interests of Iowa. 

During the last year of the biennium, a larger sum was expended for 
station bulletins and other publications than in any previous year. This 
increased expenditure was due to the large number of projects that were 
completed, and also to the exceedingly heavy demand for certain publi¬ 
cations, which has called for reprints of several bulletins and circulars 
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The station maintains high standards for its work of a strictly scien¬ 
tific character. But it does not overlook the fact that there are state¬ 
wide problems of the utmost importance to the agriculture of the State. 
Therefore, the staff endeavors at all times to work with enthusiasm in 
each of its fields, to the end that the station may he really useful and 
helpful and a leader in agricultural progress. 

ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION. 

i 

The Engineering Experiment Station has made good progress 
during the biennium. The work l\as been completely reorganized so 
as to secure the maximum efficiency, approaching in this respect 
that of a commercial organization. A new system of conducting the 
work and keeping the records has been inaugurated and is showing 
excellent results. The staff has been improved both in numbers and 
in quality. The output of the Station in the way of bulletins has 
also been improving both in quality and quantity. The service 
of the Station to the State has been widely extended and is receiving 
better recognition than ever before. Beginning with 1913, it 
became possible to use the appropriation for Good Roads Experi¬ 
mentation for work of a laboratory and scientific character ex¬ 
clusively. This came about by the creation of a new State High¬ 
way Commission by the legislature, as a separate State depart¬ 
ment. In the continuation of the Good Roads Experimentation 
work, however, we have acted throughout in cooperation with the 
State Highway Commission. 

The following is taken from the report of Director A. Marston 
for the biennium: 

The Engineering Experiment Station staff consists of the following 
men: 

One director, six professors and two associate professors, who devote 
only a limited portion of their time to the work, and whose duties are, 
to an important degree, of an administrative character, although they 
are expected to do as much investigational work and writing of bulletins 
as practicable. 

The following constitute the staff for conducting most of the regular 
investigational and testing work of the station: 

One assistant to the director, eleven-twentieths time. 

One associate professor, two-fifths time. 

One industrial engineer, one-half time. 

Five assistant engineers, full time, 

Two laboratory assistants, full time. 

One laboratory instructor, one-eiglith time. 


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Of the total salary roll, only $1,500 per year is paid to the eight men, 
other than the director, whose duties are largely of an administrative 
nature. Every effort is being made to secure the utmost amount of 
actual results in the way of tests and scientific investigations possible 
for the money available. 

Engineering Experiment Station Bulletins and Investigations. 

During the biennial period of 1912-1914 nine experiment station bulle¬ 
tins were published and widely distributed, and the manuscripts for 
three more were practically completed for publication. The experiment 
station bulletins seem to be receiving more favorable attention from resi¬ 
dents of the State and from engineers and others outside the State than 
ever before. We receive calls from foreign countries for our bulletins. 
The Executive Committee of the American Society for Testing Materials 
passed a resolution thanking the station for its cooperation in connection 
with the publication of bulletin No. 36 on Tests of Drain Tile. Some 
36 special technical investigations are at present in progress in all stages 
of completion. 

Engineering Experiment Station Services to Iowa — 1912 - 1914 . 

In addition to the completion of the technical investigations and bulle¬ 
tins above mentioned, a large amount of additional service was rendered 
to the public. 

A summary of the number of commercial tests made for cities, coun¬ 
ties, state departments, manufacturing establishments and individuals, 
on special request, shows 485 for 1912-13, and 717 for 1913-14. Many 
thousands of other tests were made in connection with the technical 
investigations. 

The station made special tests for 15 state departments or institutions, 
1912-13, and 16, 1913-14. 

Seven counties were served in a similar way 1912-13, and 29, 1913-14. 

Tests or analyses were made or other special services rendered for 18 
cities of the State 1912-13, and 54, 1913-14. 

During the two years of the biennial period the experiment station 
rendered special technical service on request to 112 different industrial 
companies of Iowa. 

The increased demands for service to the public cannot be met without 
a corresponding increase of resources. 

VETERINARY INVESTIGATIONS. 

This work was organized under provisions made by the Thirty- 
fifth General Assembly. Dr. Kurt Schern, who has had thorough 
training and extensive experience in connection with the investi¬ 
gation of animal diseases in Germany, was appointed to take charge 
of this work. Unfortunately, he is now obliged to be absent on 
account of the European war. Considerable information concern¬ 
ing hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle has been secured, and other 


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diseases have been studied. Much time has been given to hog chol¬ 
era and complications of this disease. 

Dean Stange emphasizes the importance of having veterinary investi¬ 
gations well supported and conducted by men highly trained in the 
science. Persons not familiar with this work seldom appreciate the diffi¬ 
culties surrounding it. An appropriation sufficient to provide for addi¬ 
tional help and equipment is recommended. Especially is it pointed out 
that for research work some land should be available for the care of 
experimental animals. 

EXTENSION WORK. 

By action of the Board of Education, the extension work of the 
College, which now relates to all of the Divisions of the College., 
was placed under the immediate supervision of the President. As 
far as possible it is carried on in cooperation with the deans and 
staffs of the different divisions. 

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORK. 

(Including Home Economics, Science and Veterinary Medicine.) 

During this biennium, agricultural extension work was con¬ 
ducted along the usual lines with important expansion which was 
made possible by increased appropriations. Colt shows have been 
organized and are proving helpful to Iowa farmers. The depart¬ 
ment cooperated in the operation of special trains in the interest 
of beef cattle, dairy cattle, fruit growing, and alfalfa growing. 
Much attention was given to hog cholera. On account of the great 
prevalence of the disease these years, there was an unusually large 
demand for information. The county adviser work has been 
strengthened and additional counties have organized and others 
are seriously considering this movement. 

Near the close of the biennium, Temporary Director W. J. Ken¬ 
nedy resigned, and Paul C. Taff was appointed Acting Director. 
The following is taken from Professor Taff’s report covering the 
two years: 

The work of the Department of Agricultural Extension is firmly estab¬ 
lished in Iowa. Since the Thirty-first General Assembly of Iowa made 
the initial appropriation of $15,000, the demand for extension work has 
grown faster than funds and instructional force could supply. There 
is no doubt but that this demand will continue. As counties are now 
organizing and employing county advisers, it will mean that the method 
of conducting extension work will change form somewhat. This does 
not mean that there will be less to do on account of the county agri¬ 
cultural experts. On the other hand it has been found that these men 


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need our specialists and call for them very frequently. A strong effort 
is being made to assist in every way possible to further county work by 
supporting it in the college and experiment station. 

Every line of work inaugurated has grown rapidly the past few years. 
The following lines of work were begun before the period covered by 
this report: Animal Husbandry, Farm Crops, Soils, Home Economics, 
Horticulture, Dairy and Schools. Since then, six new lines of work have 
been added: Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural Engineering, Dairy 
Manufactures, Truck Crops, Agricultural Economics, and Agricultural 
Education. 

Agricultural Extension work will be assisted greatly through the help 
of the funds made available under the Smith-Lever act of the National 
Congress. It will be necessary for the State to appropriate an equal 
amount to any above the $10,000 which is given unconditionally. 

In the short courses held during the biennial period ending June 30, 
1914, there were enrolled 48,360 persons. The department assisted in 
Farmers’ Institutes attended by 52,291 persons, and speakers addressed 
picnics and other meetings attended by more than half a million people. 
The data for the two years are given as follows: 

1912-13 1913-14 

Attendance at short courses. 21,885 26,475 

Attendance at institutes. 22,600 29,691 

Attendance at other meetings (estimated).. 300,000 400,000 

Number of short courses held. 99 140 

The additional means the department has of reaching and instructing 
the people other than in meetings are numerous. Publications are be¬ 
coming a large factor in disseminating information. The farming class 
as a rule is reading much more than formerly. A large number of bulle¬ 
tins, circulars and pamphlets has been published. Correspondence also 
has carried out an immense amount of information. 

The dairy interests of Iowa are receiving much help from the ten cow 
test associations now in operation, and the data being collected will 
prove most valuable not only to those in the immediate vicinity where 
the work is being done, but to all dairymen. The questions of feeds and 
care will be much better understood after this material is finally as¬ 
sembled. 

Home Economics courses are proving especially popular. The staff 
of extension workers in this line should be given great credit for the 
careful and systematic manner in which they have organized their work. 
A plan in use in this division probably could be well adopted in other 
lines of work, namely, using leaflets and pamphlets as a means of fol¬ 
low-up work. About twelve circulars for each year’s course have been 
prepared, covering all subjects taught. These are distributed as the 
subjects are taken up in the class room. This leaves information with 
the people in written form instead of asking audiences to depend entirely 
upon their memory. Other departments are being urged to adopt this 
method. The work of the Home Economics Division is undoubtedly 
destined to continue to grow rapidly in this State. 





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The figures given above do not show the full number of people reached, 
as those visiting our traveling educational exhibits are not shown. Three 
different sets of exhibits have been made up and sent to county and 
district fairs. Each exhibit reaches about six fairs each season. An 
exhibit is also made at the State Pair each year. Short course exhibit 
cars are also sent along with the corps of workers. In each case a man 
who is capable of answering questions and explaining the material 
has charge of the exhibits. It is estimated that 100,000 people have 
profited from these exhibits. 

There is a growing tendency in favor of teaching by demonstration 
instead of the purely lecture method. This is evidenced in the growth 
of the county agent movement. The agent is largely a demonstrator, 
and the chief demand is for demonstration fields, spraying and pruning 
demonstrations, cow test associations, etc. There is no question but that 
this is a development in the right direction. It is urged that work be 
developed in this direction as much as possible. 

The U. S. Department of Agriculture has been liberal with support, 
both financial and otherwise. Cooperation has been established in the 
county agent work, boys’ and girls’ club demonstrations, and the eradi¬ 
cation of hog cholera under their Project A. National assistance for the 
coming year has been promised, with additional help. With the Smith- 
Lever act in full operation, and the above work continued, the federal 
government will be a large factor in extension work. 

The success of extension work depends largely upon the working staff. 
It would be only proper to say that members of our staff have been loyal 
and active in their respective lines and that they should have the credit 
for any success achieved. That they are loyal is proven by the fact that 
though the department has experienced a most important change, not a 
member of the staff of over thirty workers has resigned in the past 
nine months, though several have received attractive inducements. 

Some of the new lines of work which are under consideration and 
which should be developed as rapidly as possible, are: Correspondence 
courses, entomology, rural architecture and landscape gardening, rural 
social welfare, farm management, and botany. 

Special attention is called to the provisions of the Federal Act 
known as the Smith-Lever Law, which provides for payments from 
the national treasury to the various states for extension work in 
agriculture and home economics. Under this law, Iowa is now 
receiving $10,000 per year. By action of the Governor, the funds 
are paid to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
Arts. This action holds until the Legislature has opportunity to 
act. The bill provides for further payments to the different states, 
provided such payments are duplicated by the states for the same 
purpose. 

The amount available for this State will be $18,794 in the year 
1915-16, and $34,456 in the year 1916-17. It is recommended that 
funds amounting to this total, or $26,625 for each year in the bien- 


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nium, be provided so that the federal funds will become available, 
and that the entire amount be administered at the State College in 
furtherance of extension work in agriculture and home economics 
already under way. 

ENGINEERING EXTENSION. 

This useful line of work is being developed with the aid of suc¬ 
cessful experience in other States. It promises to be. of great value 
to a large number of people. Dean Marston is temporarily assist¬ 
ing the President in organizing and supervising this work. He 
reports as follows: 

In accordance with an act of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly, the 
Engineering Extension Department was organized in the summer of 
1913. Professor K. G. Smith, formerly of Wisconsin, was placed in charge. 
His experience and other qualifications have enabled him to organize 
and develop this work with great success. 

A strong staff of six men gives full time to the work, besides an Indus¬ 
trial Engineer who divides his time between station and extension work 
in connection with the Technical Service Bureau. Eight instructors 
devote part time to the work at the College. Another eight men have 
been employed on part time as local instructors of evening classes in 
various cities of the State. 

During the winter of 1913-14 we inaugurated a new development in 
extension work by conducting Automobile Institutes in 27 cities of the 
State for the instruction of owners and users of cars. Local organizations 
bore part of the cost. About 3,000 persons received the instruction. 
Large as this number seems, especially for the first attempt ever made 
at such work, it constitutes only 3% of the automobile owners of Iowa. 
Probably $100,000,000 is invested in automobiles in this State. Our work 
in this line should be continued and extended. 

Probably the most important part of the engineering extension work 
consists in the development of correspondence study, in cooperation with 
personal supervision from traveling instructors and local evening and 
day classes, under part time resident instructors. By this work every 
mechanic in the State is being afforded an opportunity to secure technical 
education training at home and at nominal expense, while continuing 
to earn his living at his trade. 

We have conducted classes in six different cities the first year under 
eight different local instructors. The work is done in cooperation with 
the public schools, the Y. M. C. A.’s, the Commercial Clubs, the factory 
owners and other employers, and the labor organizations. The difficulty 
and cost of organizing, maintaining and conducting this work are great, 
but not too great in view of its importance. Two hundred and fifty 
students were enrolled for correspondence and class study courses the 
first, year. 

Manual training is another subject in which the engineering extension 
department has rendered an important service to the rural teachers and 


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to the boys of the State. The work is in close cooperation with the 
Agricultural Extension Department, and has occupied much of the time of 
one man. 

Technical lectures have been given in a number of different cities. 
The new Technical Service Bureau will undoubtedly render great service 
this coming year to the cities, counties and factories of Iowa. 

It is estimated that the Engineering Extension Department has ren¬ 
dered direct service of the various classes described to nearly 19,000 per¬ 
sons in Iowa in the first year of its work, without counting those reached 
in the manual training work. 

Attention is called to the fact that the appropriation expires with 
1915. It will not be repeated for next year unless the legislature takes 
action. 

HOG CHOLERA SERUM. 

The last General Assembly made an appropriation of $35,000 to 
provide for the production of biological products, especially hog 
cholera serum, and the distribution of this product and virus. The 
same law and appropriation cover the careful supervision of plants 
within the State which are making and distributing these latter 
products. Records are available to show that the serum and virus 
distributed from the new plant at Iowa State College during the 
past season have effected a saving of not less than $3,000,000 to the 
State. There was already a heavy demand for reliable serum and 
virus when the law became effective, and temporary quarters were 
provided so that the work might start as promptly as possible. 
Permanent buildings are now in use, representing an expenditure 
of about $20,000, and stock and cash on hand represent a value in 
excess of the balance of the original appropriation. Thus, on short 
notice, the plant could be closed and the entire value of the plant 
could be recovered by the State. 

Permits to use virus have been issued to more than 1,200 veteri¬ 
narians and farmers. These permits, under the law, are given only 
to farmers who wish to use the virus in their own herds or to prac¬ 
ticing veterinarians who are deemed competent. Most of the per¬ 
sons holding permits visited the laboratory and received instruc¬ 
tion before being authorized to use virus. 

Fifty-nine permits have been issued to commercial concerns sell¬ 
ing serum and virus within the State. Four of these permits have 
been revoked on account of serum not meeting the required 
standard. Seven applications for permits to sell serum and virus 
have been refused. Very great care has been taken in connection 
with authorizing distribution and use of virus. 


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With, the aid of the Agricultural Extension Department much 
educational work has been done in all parts of the State. Four 
veterinarians are engaged constantly in this work and their efforts 
have been liberally supplemented from time to time. 

It is worthy of note that, owing to the limitation of the State 
funds and the need of getting the work started rapidly, over 
$12,000 was advanced by private individuals and concerns, in¬ 
cluding several banks, so that a larger quantity of serum could be 
manufactured and placed in storage last winter awaiting a heavy 
demand which was expected to come, and did come, early in the 
summer season. 

Director Stange reports that altogether practically 10,000,000 cubic 
centimeters of serum have been produced, and that 4,714 herds have been 
treated, with the showing that in healthy herds only 2.8% of the hogs 
died after treatment with serum alone, which is considered a remarkably 
good showing. With the simultaneous treatment, the loss was only 2.2%. 
Elsewhere the corresponding loss has been reported as high as 8%. Often 
the treatment is not applied until a considerable portion of the hogs 
are sick, but even in such cases the records show favorable results. Where 
serum alone was used the loss after treatment was 29%, and where the 
simultaneous treatment was used the loss in diseased herds was 11%. 
In both cases the percentage of sick hogs in the herds was higher than 
the percentage of deaths after treatment. The simultaneous treatment 
is used in the majority of cases, and reports show that in 76% of the 
herds having this treatment there was not a single loss. 

Great care has been exercised by Director Stange in organizing 
this work. Dr. C. G. Cole, who had been engaged in the manu¬ 
facture of serum for the United States Government, was placed in 
direct charge. 


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FINANCES. 


The finances of the industrial service work performed at and 
from the College are reported by the Secretary and Treasurer. The 
amounts available from State appropriations for industrial service 
work, including experiment and extension work, during the year 


1914-15 are as follows: 

Acts and Purposes Amount 

212-1-32-1907—Experiment Station Support.$ 25,000 

216-2-32-1907—Agricultural Extension . 27,000 

212-1-32-1907—Engineering Experiment Station. 3,500 

212-1-32-1907—Good Roads Experimentation. 5,000 

244-2-33-1909—Engineering Experiment Station. 1,500 

200-3-34-1911—Agricultural Experiment Station. 15,000 

200-3-34-1911—Agricultural Experiment Station. 15,000 

200-3-34-1911—Agricultural Extension . 5,000 

200-3-34-1911—Agricultural Extension . 10,000 

200-3-34-1911—Engineering Experiment Station. 5,000 

200-3-34-1911—Good Roads Experimentation. 5,000 

228-2-35-1913—Engineering Experiment Station. 5,000 

228-2-35-1913—Engineering Extension . 25,000 

228-2-35-1913—Veterinary Investigations . 10,000 

228-2-35-1913—Agricultural Extension . 48,000 

228-2-35-1913—Agricultural Experiment Station. 57,000 


$262,000 

These appropriations support the different branches of work as 


follows: 

Agricultural Experiment Station.$112,000 

Engineering . 25,000 

Veterinary Investigations. 10,000 

Agricultural Extension. 90,000 

Engineering Extension. 25,000 


$262,000 


The appropriation to establish a hog cholera serum plant was $35,000. 
The federal government appropriates $30,000 for agricultural experi¬ 
ment station work and $10,000 for agricultural extension. 

The need of funds for the continuance and development of indus¬ 
trial service work is referred to on previous pages. 

Respectfully submitted, 

R. A. PEARSON, 

President. 

























































